Fighting against twisted love, desire, and assumptions, Ravyn's remaining battalion must travel into a dark world, a world hidden from the Abrenians. Only death and torture from a deranged civilization awaits them until another species of humans introduce themselves and give some hope. But can her elite few pull together a society long resigned to the misery of their world and halt a man set on severing ties to the One? Or will all fall to the absolute destruction already sweeping across the worlds...