Warning: This book includes explicit sexual material and political content. Please read with discretion. After the war against Tucker and Malakor, Levi and King Ozaph establish new laws to safeguard New Vesskar's citizens from the perils of magic. With General Tucker's disappearance and Malakor's demise, only one lingering flame remains: Ozaph's intensifying desire for Levi, despite Levi's sacred bond to Crest. As Seth and Finnick stabilize revolutionary tech to tame wild magic, emissaries from rival kingdoms arrive offering alliances... while testing Vesskar at every turn. Crest gradually warms to the king, forming an unexpected triad with them. This act disrupts the world's balance, causing the other Kingdoms to fear Vesskar's growing power. Duty, desire, and diplomacy collide. Can their budding triad hold the fragile peace-or will it burn?

Content Warning: (Sex/Blood/Politics/Gore/Foul Language) Levi and his older brother Seth are driven from the only home they've ever known when the Drokar kingdom hunts them, determined to capture them and drain them of their power. Alone and on the run, Levi is eventually found by Crest, the last surviving Shadowshifter and the leader of a rebellion against Vesskar-the very kingdom backing the Drokar invasion. As Levi struggles to control the volatile power awakening inside him, he is abducted by Tucker, a feared and ruthless royal General who seeks to steal Levi's power and use it to overthrow the sitting King. With Levi imprisoned and at the mercy of the Alpha, power begins tipping toward chaos. Seth, Crest, and a new friend named Finnick band together in a desperate attempt to save him. But the rescue is merely the beginning. War looms as Tucker's grip on power begins to slip, the Alpha King develops a troubling interest in Levi, and a new adversary emerges-one capable of annihilating magic itself. Trapped between a warring kingdom, escalating stakes, and forces poised to obliterate the world, Levi must confront his divine nature and decide if he's prepared to ascend to godhood before everything he holds dear is obliterated.