**In the Lands Within, history does not rest.**Each archaeological layer speaks to the living generation, carefully choosing its friends and enemies-and its kings. But now an alliance has been struck no one could have foreseen, andan ancient evil is soaking into the soil. History is being erased, purchased and re-written at a terrible price. And a kingdom that shouldn't have been forgotten is fading from memory.
In the Lands Without, archaeologist Lori Brickland has found a pottery shard with **a heartbeat.**The pulse might be a trick of the mind, or it might be the first sign of life in a world of ruin. An exiled traveler will say she shouldn't search for the truth, a calculating ruler will say she's the one he's looking for. And the kingdom? The kingdom will need her before the end. It's time to accept what she's always known...