From NY 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 may move blowing wind, waves, and weather, but his magical abilities can’t protect him forever through the brutal Empress Celestine. As Celestine’s relentless bloodsworn armies develop, Evan travels to the Fells to warn the queendom that an invasion is imminent.

If he can’t convince the Grey Wolf queen to have a stand, he knows that the Seven Realms will fall, and his last sanctuary will be destroyed. Among the lifeless will be the one individual Evan can’t stand to lose.

In the mean time, the queen’s formidable child, Princess Alyssa ana’Raisa, is already a prisoner aboard the empress’s dispatch, sailing east. Lyss could be the last remaining hope of decreasing the empress from within her personal tightly controlled stronghold.