Book and Alyric must complete the ritual to free Traveler before Burning Light can destroy the world—again. Alyric and Book have accomplished the seemingly impossible. The five necessary drops of blood have been gathered, but the servants of Burning Light oppose them and their friends at every opportunity. Having learned of her royal parentage, Mira must go head-to-head against her half sister, Suzellea, in a bid for the crown to save her kingdom from falling under the World Tyrant’s shadow. The allegiance of the fairy realms in the war between good and evil rests on her shoulders. It's a heavy weight to bear alone.As the world shifts under the weight of Burning Light’s plans, people are mysteriously dying in Sondur City. It might be that Bell is the only one who can stop the killer, but her past is catching up with her and she can only evade the truth for so long. When it feels like her life is unraveling, she breaks her biggest to never make a deal with a demon. Little does she know that the demon who stands before her is Deception Himself, and he is playing a game all his own. Book awakens to memories he never expected to have, because they didn’t happen to him. As a past life is revealed to him in his dreams, he grapples with reliving deep losses through the eyes of another. If so many people, so much more powerful and good than himself, could fail against Burning Light, Book is left to Maybe Alyric, a true hero, would be better off without him.With all that is good in the world hanging in the balance, the stakes have never been higher.