'When shadow remembers her name, the gods will rise again.
Ash or fate will be her crown.'
It's been two years since Avery buried her husband and children on the same day. Now, in a small alcove in the bayou, releasing her final memento, something that's hunted her here finally finds her. Right before it reaches her, a portal tears open and a voice tells her to jump.
She falls in.
All Avery wants is to go home. Bury her grief, rebuild what's left of her life, and be left alone. But the life she is fighting to get back to may have never been what she thought it was.
She's landed in Etheria, and Etheria has other plans. Hunted through kingdoms in a strange world built on old magic and older grudges, she's dragged before kings and courts as the answer to a prophecy she's never heard of and has no desire to fulfill.
Their first mistake was thinking she was someone who would lie down and take it.