Queen Lyla simply wants to keep her people—and the two partners who share her crown—safe from the god who has returned to finish what he started. But when Bel’s influence poisons the coast and his soldiers rise from the sea, Lyla is thrust into a war she is wholly unprepared to fight. To save her kingdom, she must wield volatile magic she barely controls and place her trust in a pirate captain, Nymbria Stromvik, whose arrival ignites a bond as dangerous as the enemy hunting them.
Every battle pushes Lyla closer to a prophecy she does not want and a truth Mina warns she can no longer outrun. Bel is not merely conqueringhe is searching for the one goddess powerful enough to destroy him.
If Lyla cannot rise before he reaches her, Elthas will fall, her people will burn, and the last hope of stopping the god of death will die with her.
