Can Ali save Kennan, the Empire, and the World? Ali won the contest of her life, The Ninety-Eight, as a pawn of the Council, but danger still lurks. The male Ali fled Dream from is using the brother of the man she loves to track her down. What's worse? That male is her father, Ambien. How will she and Kovis save his sibling from her father's clutches? If that's not bad enough, the bigger threat still looms: Ambien plans to conquer Wake, and he'll turn humans into catatonic beings who do his will if he succeeds. As Ali and Kovis search for a way to stop him, every idea requires that she return to Dream, an impossibility. What darkness will she and Kovis be forced to confront to stop the god?