"Celisc was a place I left thinking nothing would ever get better, knowing it would kill me. This is not that place."
Ascine Carson has the perfect life in a cottage hidden away in the forest with her family, never needing anything more than her husband and child in the simplistic life built after a lifetime of tragedy. When a new threat is introduced by finding their hideaway, Ascine and her renegade husband must deal with someone who proposes an intriguing offer. With a dark adventure on the horizon, travelling towards the unknown, and meeting a king who requires blood, expecting a baby deemed to be a miracle certainly didn't help the situation. The second book in the Backen trilogy entails a romance to fall in love with all over again, a fantasy to be lost within, and a mad world to unravel.