Having power is not the same thing as having control. This Aethan knows. Within him is a door to a power greater than all the black powder in the Mareshal’s legions. He once dreamed of using it to be a hero, to save his people from the Dominion’s tyranny, but all it gave him was death. It is the power that destroyed the Amaranthine Empire. It is the power that the inquisition denies. It is the power that Carlotte’s sister brought back from the mountains, and it is the power that killed her. Aethan’s days of heroics are behind him. Now he just wants peace, but Carlotte will not let the past lie. She will never accept ignorance. She will cast a light onto the dark.