This book is a sequel to Mortance: A Miscarriage of Hope. If you have not read that book, you will not enjoy this one as much. One princess is dead, another broken, the world is at war, and the Silver Girl has awoken. The end of the Thousand-Year War that has shaken Ert for twelve-hundred and twenty years has begun. Knights and Princesses and Kings and commonfolk alike are all in danger now, for war does not discriminate in its distruction. As the realm burns, treachery and deception runs rampant in the south. A warrior runs from her home in the east with hopes of repentance. On the seas in the west, two captains and a prince mourn in the shadow of death. Meanwhile, the Silver Girl recovers from tragedy, and the unexpected snows of summer begin to fall in Viri. Dark times lie ahead. Cover designed by the most excellent @apprehensiveanne (again)