Despite their victory liberating the Alboran people, the progress of the revolution has slowed. To make things worse, King Verahim's forces have begun amassing at the border, and an all-out invasion is imminent. With no other options, Mara seeks the aid of an ancient evil: the dead god that she herself killed two years prior.
Having escaped the Magistrate's Faceless minions and the cultists that worship them, a girl named Nadezhda arrives in the newly liberated Balgorod with a dark secret-one that could save Sangora, or leave it in ashes.
Even if she fails to retake her empire, Mara knows one thing:
