A brand-new fantasy saga from the author of the Keys of Power series Third Prince Maddyn Kevleren is one of the few members of his royal family who cannot Wield-cannot access the realm of magic. When he crosses the most powerful magician in the empire, he will be forced to set out across the sea to find the new colony of Kydan to escape her revenge...but even the wide ocean may not be enough to protect him.

After surviving battle and sorcery, the city of Kydan now faces internal division between native and Hamilayan colonist. Strategos Galys Valera and her allies must forge a new city from the old, in time to face the threat of a defeated enemy intent on bloody revenge. Back in the old world, Empress Lerena of Hamilay, flushed with victory over her rivals, finds that she may yet have to go to war to finally secure her place as the most powerful Wielder of the Sefid, the great source of magic that shapes both city and empire.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE KEYS OF POWER TRILOGY THE EPIC CONCLUSION OF THE CHRONICLES OF KYDAN A final confrontation between old and new, between tyrannical magic and freedom, and between an empire and a growing nation-state that will determine the fate of millions-and not least the brave band of colonists who set out from Hamilay to settle Kydan with courage and hope in their hearts.