The door of the Aether Spire opens onto a refuge built for a people in flight. Its halls still keep their names. Something else has kept their secrets.
Carrying grief into the heart of the ruin, Nalovia Eondasain and her companions search for shelter, answers and a way home. Among abandoned stores and failing works, they uncover the price their god paid to bar the horrors behind the exodus. What remains of that sacrifice is finite-and someone within the Spire knows how to turn hope against them.
An inheritance can preserve a people or become another claim upon them. To discover what home might mean, Nalovia must face the difference between protecting those she loves and deciding their lives for them.
Book Three of Ruins of the Homeland. Illustrated with five black-and-white maps, creature portraits and equipment plates.