Koth spent almost a year training and searching for the people responsible for his brother's murder. Against all odds, he found one of them. Both forced to flee the capital, Radij is within a finger's breadth from him, but Koth owes his escape to the woman who thinks the mage can help break his former master's power. He knows the mage is lying and that Jakira wants to believe that she can save her empire and marriage before another naval house strikes out. Knowing Koth is only biding his time, Jakira abandons him on an island. On that fateful night, Una decides to reveal her powers to save a man's life, and in doing is, is kidnapped by those who also claim to hunt mages and the supernatural. Thing is that her powers are far from ordinary.

He is forced to chose between rescuing Una before the trail runs cold, or doing as she instructed and finish the mage before their supernatural meddling causes even more destruction.

Iona, meanwhile, has been forced to deal with her reoccurring dreams although she's forsaken the role of Oracle thrust upon her. She loves her brother, even though she suspects he's using her as a bargaining chip to get them into a new coven. When her brother is captured by enemy mages, not only will she seek out the most unlikely ally imaginable-namely the man who wants her brother dead-but must contend with a mage that has lost all control and allowed his body to be taken over by something from another realm. She can't trust her visions and has never been much of a gambler, but she refuses to remain anyone's pawn.