Wall Road Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg builds her bewitching world of beasts and betrayal as the Numina Series continues.

Sandis has escaped Kazen’s understanding, but she sees herself unmoored, reeling from her thief friend Rone’s betrayal.

Kazen continues to be hurt but not stopped, and he’ll do anything to summon the monster that could lay waste to the entire world. Sandis knows she must be the one to stop him, but with her very own trusted numen right now bound to some other, and getting herself with no one she can trust, she is in desperate want of allies. Rone appears determined to greatly help her, but Sandis has no intention of allowing him get close to her again. What she doesn’t understand is how much Rone gave up to safeguard her. Or just how much more he is willing to quit to maintain her safe.

As chaos mounts, Sandis have to determine whom to trust. In the end, the lines between foe and ally haven’t been less very clear…and problem lurks in one of the most unlikely of areas.