Born without light, she was written off by the whole realm as useless. Her brother Cassian cast her into the Shadowlands and, on the way out, killed their mother. No one knew that the wasteland was the only place where the blood within her could awaken. She survived and came back. Her starlight blazed in the High Hall, the thousand-year law broke, and Cassian was forced to kneel.
The nobles fell, and she took the throne. Then Kael steps close and whispers that her mother is alive, locked in the lowest cell by Cassian. She has just won everything, yet the real war has not even begun. Now she must decide whether to save the mother she thought was gone, while a court still waiting for her to fall watches her every move.
