Power-hungry Kalare has rebelled against Alera's aging First Lord Gaius Sextus. Ill-equipped to face this attack Gaius must seek support
- even from the combative High Lord of Aquitaine. Kalare has also seized valuable hostages that could mean the difference between victory & failure. & Amara the First Lord's Cursor has been tasked with their rescue. She has earned this trust but are her allies as worthy
- or does the Lady Aquitaine see the time as ripe for betrayal? Treachery is rife elsewhere as young Tavi of Calderon will find. Posted away from the war Tavi joins a legion anyway under an assumed name. Then Kalare does the unthinkable
- uniting with the brutish Canim. When treason wipes out the army's command structure Tavi finds himself leading an inexperienced legion against the might of the Canim horde
- the very last resort of a war-torn realm.