An untested ship's captain continues his perilous journey home aboard the Peregrine's emergency launch, accompanied by the few surviving crewman of the doomed Seeker ship. He carries a book full of dark secrets, under an oath to deliver it to his homeland before it's too late. But secrets are like wild animals caught in a snare, scratching and biting, clawing their way to freedom. Fresh from her confrontation with an unknown power in the western Wilds, a young warrior is pressed into the service of an arrogant, powerful lord who claims that only he can save the world. An ancient evil has awakened and she must confront it, with but a steadfast few of her fellow Laegis Templar, in a city of blasted ruins clinging to the cracked edge of the world.