Hirka has been sent to the world of the blind, who now see her as their only chance to reignite a thousand-year-old war. The blind will use Hirka's ability to travel between worlds to return to Ym. And this time, they will prevail. Hirka is torn between her loyalties to the people who birthed her and the people who raised her, between the saviour she is expected to be and the individual she wants to be. And every choice she makes pulls her further away from Rime, the love of her life. But the stillborn's thirst for the gift, life energy, is so great that a war between the camps seems inevitable...