A world on the edge of chaos. An ancient evil awakened. A family torn apart. It has been ten years since the fateful battle of Queen's End, and Samirra is ravaged by famine and plague. The Council of Elements has fallen apart, and Maialen, the Keeper of Earth, is the only one who seems to care about holding together the tenuous peace amongst the realms. As the threat of the Fomori grows and war seems inevitable, Maialen realizes that to save her own kingdom and the rest of Imbria, she will have to betray those she has sworn allegiance to and look to the last person she ever thought she would trust, the enigmatic Keeper of Fire. All the while, the looming prophecy of the Solvrei still hangs over the world like a dark shadow. To do what is right, Maialen must decide if she believes the prophecy, and her sister's child is truly of divine blood, or if he is merely a deranged little boy raised to believe that he is the descendant of Gods, another of Orabelle's mistakes she is forced to try to correct. Whatever the Earth Keeper chooses, the fate of the four realms now rests on her. From award-winning author J. Barrett comes the exciting second book in a gritty adventure series full of heart, loyalty, intrigue, deception, and a host of bittersweet emotions.