Lara has a power no one can know about.
She can manipulate the laws governing life and death—a feared and forbidden power that Lara has learned to hide. When she comes to Caladore, she is determined to guard her secrets and never give anyone a reason to look too closely.
There she meets Tren-Lore, a young prince who can’t help but look closely at her. As their friendship becomes something neither of them can ignore, Lara finds it harder to conceal who she truly is. Soon, keeping her secret may mean standing by while someone she loves is lost.
Revealing it could change everything.
Because some powers were forbidden for a reason.
And some people are worth breaking every rule for.
Tren-Lore has spent his entire life waiting to become a Sanysk.
Chosen to wield powers few possess and charged with protecting a world already beginning to fracture, he finally has everything he believed he was meant for.
But becoming a Sanysk has come at a price.
The more Tren-Lore gives himself to his new purpose, the harder it becomes to recognize the man he used to be. When Lara returns to his life, everything he has sacrificed comes sharply into focus. But the more clearly Tren-Lore sees what he has lost, the harder it becomes to ignore the power that helped shape what he has become.
He wanted to be a Sanysk more than anything.
Now he must decide how much of himself he is willing to lose to remain one.
Kor has never needed anyone to tell him what’s right.
He knows the world is full of people with power who use it against those who have none. He knows most of them will never be held accountable.
So Kor decides to do something about it.
Armed with a dangerous gift, a questionable sense of restraint, and an increasingly ambitious idea of justice, he sets out to right the wrongs everyone else seems willing to ignore.
But Kor isn’t the only one with ideas about what the world should become.
As unfamiliar forces begin pulling him toward a purpose he doesn’t entirely understand, Kor must decide which voices deserve his trust—and whether the people offering him answers are trying to save the world, control it… or use him to remake it in their own image.