Johannes Noväk is a foreign pilot for Britain's Royal Air Force, desperately trying to resist the Führer's terrible reign over his homeland. When his plane is shot down and his companions captured by the Nazis, he finds himself fleeing across Germany in a frantic attempt at survival. If he can cross the Channel, he'll make it back to safety and his sweetheart. If he can't, it will mean certain death.

Astalder Akiyama was as bloodthirsty and selfish as she was unlikely to be a hero. But, when an old friend from her childhood is abducted and the monarchy pleads for her help, Astalder forsakes her life of piracy and embarks on a dangerous mission to lay claim to an ancient weapon: the Oblivion. Together with her closest friend, a member of her crew and a man she barely knows and likes even less, Astalder will traverse the country in a frantic race against time, do battle with enemies the likes of which she had never seen, and come to the bitter terms of her own past.