The immortal Herendak wants to undo the end of the world. It didn't used to be filled with humans. It was once so very different. It had no boundaries, no limitations. No planetary rings which scarred the sky. After a thousand years, he has a way. Meryn gives birth to his child and things will never be the same again. But Meryn begins to change. A sickness creeps up her leg. What has Herendak taken from her? What is he willing to do to remake the world? What, she wonders, as something hunts her relentlessly across the land, has he already done? As an army of monstrous creatures gathers in the north, the Kingdom of Draldorn rallies its military to stop him, and two sisters, a mercenary and a band of outlaws find themselves trapped in a secret which will decide the fate of them all.