Lily is lost without her staff, but she doesn't exactly tell Cade that's why she's going to Onifall, letting him think that her mission is to visit Ceana and Declan. Cade's consumed with jealousy that she will be visiting with her former betrothed and his arch nemesis. It's a destruction that a man doesn't need when he's facing lethal necromancers in battle. Sightless and angry at the world, Declan is hell-bent on self-destruction and taking his ire out on the new witch charged with healing him. Aras is a Dusk Elf on a mission to save his sister's life. Deceiving Oriana doesn't sit well on his conscience, but a brother's got to do what he can to save his sister.