Now the family members continues to be shattered. King Olin Eddon is definitely a prisoner inside a faraway land. Olin’s heir Kendrick is definitely lifeless – slain by treachery and dark, bloody magic – and Kendrick’s youthful brother and sister have barely escaped several attempts independently lives. With their father and brother taken from them, the royal twins Barrick and Briony have done their best to hold the kingdom together. Aged magics are stirring beneath the historic castle and behind the Shadowline, and the machinations of gods, fairies, and mortals threaten to spread devastation across the entire world. Even if Barrick and Briony survive learning the amazing truths at the heart of their own family members and of Southmarch itself, they must still find a way to do the impossible: they need to reclaim their kingdom and rescue their home and people from a multitude of effective enemies – from traitors, tyrants, a god-king, and even the irritated gods themselves.