A new love awakens. Dark forces stir. The world stands on the brink of war.The Battle of Saltstone is won.

The people live.

Kingdom armies are retreating in disarray.

And Irina is dead.

Or is she?

A new darkness rises, one with shifting faces no one sees coming. This time, its goal is not the people of the land; it is magic itself.

Declan, Keelan, Atikus, and the rest face threats from every direction. If they fail, so will the Gift, robbing generations of magic and the world of its freedom.