Find the scissors. Sever your fate. It was Evrin’s idea to run. Once they say their vows, Asterin only needs to bypass her bodyguard—and estranged childhood friend—Oriana. Something she's good at. No longer willing puppets, she and Evrin will escape the fates chosen for them—both their crowns and the legend of their divine births. But their wedding day turns into a bloodbath just as Evrin reveals the truth he learned during his recent absence: all the stories are true. A dead god told him so. Forced to flee with the bodyguard she tried to leave behind, Asterin is cast into an unfamiliar world, where the gods she’s refused to believe in are real, and they’re not the worst things on the road. Joined by a fallen god, a mortal navigator, and a charming blacksmith, Asterin must find the scissors of fate before her haunted past catches up. Still, when she can’t even wield her new, unstable power, Asterin strays off-course to claim more. Nobody else will die so she can live. Not again. But when more power comes at a price, Asterin might have to sacrifice her future to put the past to rest.