something like a piece of me

' How broken must our world be that he thought I'd let him die.'

Tayn meets a wounded, Argyroan soldier on the day the war ends. He disappears before they can even get to know him. The only thing he tells them is that he wants to start his life again in Ibanum, the port city of Adala.

Gunnar is the soldier who left Tayn that day. He collapses on the road to Ibanum and is adopted by a farmer and his family. Tayn, the enemy that saved his life, constantly plays on his mind.

Theo is a twenty year old veteran searching for their sibling, Tayn, after a war that has left him with terrors to last a lifetime. One day he meets an girl called Wena, half Argyroan and half Adalan, hated by all, but the most wonderful person he's ever gotten to meet. She is the thing that keeps him going.

Wena remembers when her best friend, Gunnar, deserted. He would never be welcome in Argyros again unless welcomed by an arrow through the head. Now she nurses a broken heart in a country that wants her gone.

This is a story of relationships shaped by war. This is a story of how to love when love costs everything.