Kyarian scout Reylin T’Vair has been missing for eight months. Just when his closest friends - his cousin Vael T’Vair and best friend Kiran - are about to give up on ever seeing him again, he returns. Death is hot on his heels, though, in the form of a master assassin bent on returning Reylin to the vicious Te'iltic queen who held him captive. After a daring and impossible escape, the three travel south, seeking answers for a strange affliction now harrowing the scout. Their travels will change their understanding of the world...and disrupt powers they didn’t even know existed.