From New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima
comes the third gripping adventure in the Shattered Realms series,
where intricately interwoven storylines converge as the warring
Seven Realms struggle to unite against a horrific tyrant.
Vagabond seafarer Evan Strangward can move wind, waves, and weather, but
his magical abilities can't protect him forever from the brutal Empress
Celestine. As Celestine's relentless bloodsworn armies grow, Evan
travels to the Fells to warn the queendom that an invasion is imminent.
If he can't convince the Gray Wolf queen to take a stand, he knows that
the Seven Realms will fall, and his last sanctuary will be destroyed.
Among the dead will be the one person Evan can't stand to lose.
Meanwhile, the queen's formidable daughter, Princess Alyssa ana'Raisa,
is already a prisoner aboard the empress's ship, sailing east. Lyss may
be the last remaining hope of bringing down the empress from within her
own tightly controlled stronghold.