Evil forces. An evil prince. Even death itself is in chaos. Iris simply wants to return home, but this young priestess and her strange friends are in for a surprise from fate.
The Kaerent church is suffocating Erinlin's ancient traditions, and its actual priestesses, the Candlemaidens, are becoming more and more feared and mistrusted.
Iris only wants to take care of her candles, triumph in her shade wars, and converse with the spirits who inhabit her domain. When the Kaerent king forcibly removes her from her home, she discovers that her nation need her to be much more than an ordinary Candlemaiden; she must be like the fabled priestesses of old and walk into Death itself.