The king is dead. Blossom and Asher are on the run. And it's getting harder to know who to trust. During what should have been the beginning of the rest of their lives together, the newlyweds must help uncover decades of treachery, political unrest, and discrimination. As more secrets are uncovered Blossom grapples with the hardest question of his life. Who... or what, is he? Book 2 in the Balance Cycle