The chronicle unfolds as the dark odyssey continues. The second volume in the sweeping 18-book Realms of Kyre epic fantasy saga.
Leaving behind the blood and carnage of Gladeton Falls, Kyre marches toward the uncertain eastern border of the Lordlands. Ahead lies Buckington—a lawless Free Port owing deep debts to his manipulative handlers, the clandestine Sisterhood of the Rua.
Kyre has been sent to collect what is owed, but in a town governed by greed, the price of the debt will be paid either in silver or in blood.
As the newly named Lord of Tyre, a fractured destiny pulls him in two directions. To the south lie the harsh canyons and barren plateaux of the isolated province he is now expected to rule. To the east lie the Coasts and Isles—the mysterious realm that has haunted his fractured memories and vivid dreams.
Caught between the shifting schemes of the Sisterhood, the demands of overbearing nobles, and the call of his own forgotten past, Kyre must finally choose his path. Will he allow others to bend him to their will, or will he unleash his phenomenal power to forge a kingdom of his own?
From the intimate to the World-shattering, the realms will never be the same again