When a series of dark rituals devastate the fledgling Chapel of Canta, Jane and Cinzia realise they possess ignored the movements in the shadows for too long. With Knot at her side, Cinzia deals with dark beings to battle the greater bad. Meanwhile, Astrid’s tries to elude the Black Matron backfire, and she encounters whatever she fears most importantly issues: her personal past. Winter, in hopes of regaining something of her aged life, returns to Pranna to find the village nothing beats it utilized to end up being. With Urstadt the soldier and Galce the tailor at her part, she must choose how to use her still-growing, all-consuming power–if she can have the ability to control it at all.