For generations, the tribes of Alemar have held an uneasy peace - and Reena's people, the Phoenix, have kept it.
She's the Chieftain's daughter, young to be carrying it, and already the weight is being laid on her shoulders. Then the exiled Leopard tribe returns - thought gone forever, back now with fire and blade - and an alliance built over lifetimes begins to collapse in days.
But when Reena digs into how they found their way home, she uncovers a hidden hand steering all of it from the shadows, set on erasing everything her people have made. Hunted and grieving, she takes up the path of her warrior ancestors to hunt it down - and what waits at the end is nothing she was raised to believe in.
A discovery that overturns her world, and forges an alliance no one in Alemar could have dreamed possible.