The hour has come to set the world alight. Abiassa's people fall. Her Deliverers wait as Poired Dyrth marches unchecked through the Nine Kingdoms. He's taken the Embers of countless Accelerants. He's taken Zaethien and Hetaera, the mightiest cities of the Nine. He's taken the blood of the royal family. Now Dyrth is after Haegan's power-the Fierian's power. And after that, he wants the world. But Dyrth will not take it unopposed. Battered...