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.
