Elowen spent five years locked in Viktor's cage, her blood and her silence treated as his property. The night her sister Seraphina tears through the walls to reach her, an explosion cracks the compound open and the two of them run into a war that was already waiting.
Malachai needs Seraphina's blood to open the First Gate, and he will burn the city to get it. Elowen has to decide how much of herself to spend keeping her sister alive, while Viktor's heart-blood and the fire in her own hands become the only things standing between the world and what is behind the door. Three thousand years end on her watch, and the shadow in the flame wears her face.
