Hatred can bring the world to ruin. So too can love.
The night Felluria falls in fire and flame, Marwy Ninek would rather die than suffer in its conqueror’s bed yet death is a hope snatched from her at the last. Vengeance turns a man into a monster and she must live, alone and lonely, amid the ruins of her life.
In the west, a bastard is called to the kingship. A glorious future for a foundling, if he did not know Averla, fire made flesh, lays claim to his kingdom.
A stranger brings Marwy Ninek peace from the horrors of her past but other eyes than hers are watching Assiolo, and love ever did give hostages to fortune. To save his life, she makes a bargain with Averla and so, unknowing, gives her what she needs to bend Assiolo to her will and his power to her purpose.
The king in the west has swords and ships and a valiant heart. All this is nothing, set against a man with hatred in his heart, a man blinded by the light, a man who can stop the sun at noontime.
Unless love can come from behind stone walls and turn back the tide.