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Twenty years ago, a brutal ambush shattered a royal convoy, leaving a crown prince, his noble wife, and their young son for dead in a shallow forest grave. Only one miraculously survived: the boy, pulled from the earth, his memories of fire and blood buried deep.
Now, in the border city of Kareth, the shadows of the past stir. Raen, a mysterious and sharp-witted figure, finds his path crossing with Lysha, a resourceful hunter's daughter whose life is upended when she's ensnared in a plot against her father, Tareth. Tareth, a quiet hunter, harbors a secret: he's a survivor of that long-forgotten massacre, haunted by the scar on his back and the ghosts of his past.
When Lysha is taken by Lord Caldrin Vale, the new governor hunting Tareth, an unlikely alliance forms. Raen and Tareth must infiltrate Caldrin's heavily guarded estate, a desperate gamble that plunges them into a deadly confrontation. But what they uncover is far more shocking than a simple betrayal.
For a figure from the grave has returned, older, darker, and burning with a quiet fury. The dead remember, and their reckoning will shatter the present, exposing a conspiracy that reaches the highest echelons of power and threatens to ignite a kingdom.