Book 2 of the Lightstone Chronicles:
The Servant of Kesh is dead and yet the threat to Elgared continues to grow. Sorcerers are plotting, assassins are hunting, an army is assembling, and the Acan Emperor intends to brutally snuff out all rebellion. As Teriel leads his people to freedom, his family has been captured and taken into the cruel heart of the Empire, where his sister is about to discover that even in the midst of the blackest night, the light of Elgared never fails. Her name is Elana.