It's the Century of Sorrows and not even the once mighty nation of Taytamba can withstand the winds of conquest that the Sun Emperor summons; its king slain, its princes scattered to the corners of the land, and its lone royal daughter demanded as tribute to the invader's bloodthirsty god. Only... Princess Izhera is a Paleblood, red of eye and white of hair, destined to spend her days in the Moonsingers' dark embrace. But Hoshnu's herald does not care; for Hoshnu does as he wills, and he has claimed what is his... A princess must walk the dark road ahead, she must traverse the broken hills and screaming sands of the continent, and she must climb the towers of silence to wed the War God that destroyed her world.