PEOPLE ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM The war between the Associated Sovereignties and Cera grows more bitter by the day. Liam Colley, general of the Associated Sovereignties, fights alongside his men in a desperate attempt to turn the tide. Over the border in Cera is Aleysa, the girl he rescued from poverty. Coerced into using her psychic gift in ways that do not sit easily with her conscience, she seeks any opportunity to escape the country. Thousands of miles away, the Empress Cassaya fights for her life against an illness none of her healers can cure. If she dies, the Sovereignties will crumble. None of them realise that another faction is about to enter the war. They call themselves the Crommenach, and they have just one aim: to stay alive, no matter what the cost.