The war is over. Fraun is rebuilding. And somehow, Tutor - orphan, scholar, accidental royal - is sitting on the throne of Sarcheda. He didn't ask for it. He's not sure he deserves it. And a vocal faction of Sarcheda's citizens agrees. But the new council at his back believes in him and his loyal friends see something in him he has never been able to see in himself. Tutor has spent his whole life feeling like he died up in the wrong place. Sarcheda isn't helping.