When thirteen-year-old Iris Vale follows an ember-eyed fox through a locked railway door, she enters Lhovarre—a world of midnight trains, listening forests, and mirrors that remember what has not happened yet. Beneath its beauty, something ancient is waking. To stop it, Iris must cross a land where names can be stolen, shadows can wear familiar faces, and a sleeping crown lies buried beneath a frozen sea. With only a sly fox, a frightened boy, and a lantern that burns on truth, she must discover why the darkness knows her voice—and what her vanished father was trying to protect.