Balance hangs by a thread and Eklean is on the brink of terrifying change. Devlyn wakes in a strange room with his connection to Aliel mysteriously gone and his body broken. Time is not on his side-Eklean needs him. Servants of Shadow have infiltrated Eklean's cities, undermining their safety and spreading doubt about who can be trusted. Under the growing Darkness and the Erynien Empire's intensifying pressure to submit, the withering Lucillian...