A year ago, the March Kingdoms were at peace, and the Eddon family held
the throne. Now the family has been shattered. King Olin Eddon is a
prisoner in a faraway land, and Olin's heir Kendrick is dead--slain by
treachery and dark, bloody magic.
With their father and brother taken from them, the royal twins Barrick
and Briony have done their best to hold the kingdom together, but now
Barrick has been captured in a failed war against the immortal Twilight
People and Briony has been forced to flee.
Behind the Shadowline, Prince Barrick is lost and spellbound in the land
of the fairies, while Princess Briony finds both allies and deadly
enemies in unexpected places far from the land of her birth.
During their desperate journeys the twins discover that even a land's
rulers may know little of its true history, and that both families and
nations can hide dark and terrible secrets.
But even if Barrick and Briony survive learning the astonishing truths
at the heart of their own family and of Southmarch itself, they must
still find a way to do the impossible: they must reclaim their kingdom
and rescue their home and people from a multitude of powerful
enemies--from traitors, tyrants, a god-king, and even the angry gods
themselves.