Strange voices. Ominous dreams. Conspiracies of a mounting war. A gnawing anxiety that something big is about to happen. 13-year-old Cassiel is thrust into a foreign land with no allies, no family, and nothing to his name. With a council vying for his execution, and his past demons closing in on his position, can Cassiel run away fast enough, or will he be forced to do something he hadn’t even considered from the beginning—finally standing up for himself?