The epic saga continues.Five years have passed and tensions are mounting as the people of the Inner Lands grow tired of the claustrophobic caves of Rydan Fort. As pressure builds and new threats rise, the people closest to Sill become increasingly concerned about her use of power.Kallem has stayed away, choosing to spend his time on the mountainside above the Fort. Struggling to overcome his injuries, new conflicts soon force him back into a world of violence he'd hoped to have left behind.

Meanwhile, Artell sets off across the Big Water, hoping to find a new life for them all, but her old life proves difficult to escape, and the journey brings dangers of its own.With the Grinth gone, they should have felt safe, but in their hearts and the old granite of the Fort, are rumblings of dark tidings.