The lanterns have held back the dark for two thousand years. They're starting to go out. Marrick is a lanternkeeper's apprentice at the edge of the world - an orphan who lost everything and somehow stayed grateful anyway. When the lights begin to fail and his fallen king asks the impossible of him, he sets out across a dying kingdom to save it. He doesn't know the shadow has already sent someone to make sure he never arrives. She doesn't know that watching him will cost her everything she is. A story about light, the people who carry it, and what it costs to keep feeling in a world begging you to let go.