An empire, bursting with newfound magic; A king beyond human, atop a bloodstained throne; A quartet of childhood friends turned angels of the apocalypse; And one girl, versus the world. Lan has a mission - atone for her past mistakes, right the wrongs that now plague the hostile and unfamiliar nation of Nameria, and kill the god-king, the usurper Mallinder. The magic that seems to spring forth wherever he goes - Faith - that turns the beliefs of the masses into a force to be harnessed by those in the spotlight, even now twists the country to its breaking point. The four that follow him, his Pillars, the High Tetrad, seem an impossible barrier to overcome with their own divine powers. But, Lan knows a secret about the god-king: Something so monumental that the fate of the country could rest on it. She knows what he is.