Seers and cutthroat politicians, technocrats and a warrior class, jockey for power in a world where memories imperil the future. A soldier and a determined young woman, adversaries with their own secrets, ally to find the key that will avert a terrible reckoning on their world. A prophecy takes them from a mercenary's stronghold to an oracle's decaying temple, on to a monastery's long-buried secrets and, finally, to a violent confrontation in a long-ruined fortress at sea's edge. A final justice may well sacrifice everything they know.