"And you wonder why I don't trust you to behave?"

In a world of multiple races, cultures, and lifespans, those words apply to almost everyone. With over a decade working with the various races and kingdoms of her world, the human Ranger Z knows this well. Even with the resurrection of the Alliance, very few kingdoms willingly work together.

Yet when a magical disaster threatens their world as a whole -- a disaster that has occurred once before, and left nothing in its wake -- racial differences will have to be set aside. With the tentative agreements between kingdoms to assist in these types of crises untested, Z knows it's up to her to gather the assistance she'll require.

Calling upon the heirs of the Allied kingdoms, the Shades of a long perished race, and the exiled, unsocial Dragon who invited himself, Z might actually succeed. If her allies can get along, if they can stop something others failed to avert before, and if she can contain the personal demons that sporadically endanger the lives of those who travel with her.
But the buildup of magic, the heart of it, is rooted in the kingdom that holds her past and the scars she's never managed to escape.

To defeat the danger that's brewing, Z will have to return to the kingdom that broke her, confront the man who rules there, prevent the magic building in the depths from escaping, and protect those who stand beside her, all while risking the second annihilation of their world if she falters -- if any of them falter -- in even the slightest way.

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• Publication Date: September 4, 2017
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