Something was waking. Something terrible. Something that knew she had come.

Born of a magical bloodline, Kiera is summoned to perform an impossible task. Her people have been exiled from the lands of Anwyn and have become wanderers on the sea, living in ships with no land to call their own. Because of a special agreement created between Cam and Spider and the Anarwyn almost one hundred years before, the survivors are allowed to come ashore once a year and, under the supervision of two Heirs, collect the food, lumber, and precious metals necessary for survival at sea.

When the Heirs from Kiera’s fleet perish in a tragic battle, Kiera must put herself forward as a possible Heir. At the choosing ceremony, something unprecedented and terrifying happens. Kiera finds herself the sole Heir of both magics with all the accompanying weight of responsibility this brings. After another disaster at sea, she finds herself alone with a young man named Jalen, the only survivors of a terrible shipwreck.

Armed with nothing but an amulet, a bag of stones, and a magical sword, the two of them set out to accomplish the impossible—to save a dying land and heal two competing magics that have been at war for thousands of years. But the land through which she must travel seeks her destruction. The corrupted magics rob her of her memories and drive her companions mad. Kiera must find the strength to stand alone, to heal the hurts of a broken land, to tame the rage of the wild magics before they fail and all is lost.