Hope Betrayed follows Caleb’s fateful mission to find a cure for his son, Warren. With winter fast approaching and Ada’s centuries-old enemy closing in, Caleb has no choice but to return and pay the price for abandoning his sacred oath as a soldier. Yet Warren's resentment over his mother's death on Earth burns deeper each day, until he scarcely resembles the boy his father once knew. Telai seeks Caleb in the wilderness, answering her heart in defiancé of her position as Grand Loremaster. But a visit from a mysterious stranger triggers a vision of this child from the stars, and a warning as old as history itself ... Evil never dies. It only sleeps.