Magic, risk, and adventure abound for messenger Karigan G’ladheon in the sixth reserve in Kristen Britain’s NYC Times-bestselling Green Rider epic fantasy series.

Zachary Davriel Hillander, Great Ruler of Sacoridia, rues how much he has already established to stop to lead his realm, like the freedom to live and love as he chooses. When an embassy from Eletia gets there to propose a jv between their realms to search out an old ally in the north, he’s dismayed to discover that the main one about Firebrand Sacoridian they have in mind to accompany their instruction is the woman he truly loves but cannot have: Green Rider Karigan G’ladheon.

Karigan has only returned from a dark future where Sacoridia continues to be conquered and is ruled with a despotic emperor, and she has not recovered in center or mind. As though that is not enough, the castle ghosts won’t keep her only. Though Zachary is certainly loath to component from her so immediately after her return, he knows she is the best choice to attempt the mission towards the north.

Each step on the journey places Karigan and her companions nearer to enemy territory and danger, for northward lie the forces of Second Empire, Sacoridia’s longtime foe, and Grandmother, the necromantic leader of Second Empire, is not idle. She uses her magic to summon a outrageous elemental soul to wreak havoc upon Zachary and his wife, Queen Estora.

Initially the Sacoridians flourish in fending from the creature, but it thus covets Estora that it can’t stay away. It abducts Zachary, presuming his form and his place at Estora’s side-but when it is finally ousted, Zachary continues to be missing. Estora, alone and large with twins, must prepare her realm for the arriving conflict from your confines of her bedchamber.

Meanwhile, the danger only deepens for Karigan and her companions because they journey north. When she discovers herself caught amid a clash between pushes, Karigan must recovery and protect her king before she falls into a snare established by Grandmother-a capture that could give Second Empire the energy to control the useless and all the demons from the hells.