Dara, already marked by hardship over the course of the Spellmonger series, takes the lead in this standalone novel built to welcome new readers into Terry Mancour's magical-feudal world. Amid warfare and political maneuvering where marriages serve practical alliances more than affection, she has to reckon with feelings she's spent years guarding -- her own, and those of the people who have quietly come to matter to her.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources