The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Kingfountain
series conjures an epic, adventurous world of ancient myth and magic as
a young woman's battle with infinite evil begins.
Survivor of a combat school, the orphaned Bingmei belongs to a band of
mercenaries employed by a local ruler. Now the nobleman, and collector
of rare artifacts, has entrusted Bingmei and the skilled team with a
treacherous assignment: brave the wilderness's dangers to retrieve the
treasures of a lost palace buried in a glacier valley. But upsetting its
tombs has a price.
Echion, emperor of the Grave Kingdom, ruler of darkness, Dragon of
Night, has long been entombed. Now Bingmei has unwittingly awakened him
and is answerable to a legendary prophecy. Destroying the dark lord
before he reclaims the kingdoms of the living is her inherited mission.
Killing Bingmei before she fulfills it is Echion's.
Thrust unprepared into the role of savior, urged on by a renegade
prince, and possessing a magic that is her destiny, Bingmei knows what
she must do. But what must she risk to honor her ancestors? Bingmei's
fateful choice is one that neither her friends nor her enemies can
foretell, as Echion's dark war for control unfolds.
