Ten years ago, Cyners Visnuka watched his mother die with a warning unfinished on her lips.
Since that night, he has lived with one question: why?
The answer begins with a black pendant buried among the remains of a dead knight-an ancient relic that whispers his name, summons visions of a throne built from bones, and draws the attention of creatures that should have remained buried.
Then the dead begin to kneel before him.
Hunted by servants of the mysterious King Gonroci and guided by people whose loyalties are buried beneath years of lies, Cyners follows the trail his mother left behind. Every answer leads deeper into the forgotten history of the Chosen, the Crown of Bones, and the ancient Black Throne-a relic capable of commanding the dead and concealing something far older beneath it.
But Cyners soon discovers that his mother's death was never the beginning of his story.
She knew what he was.
She knew what he could become.
And perhaps her final warning was never meant to protect her son from the darkness.
Perhaps it was meant to protect the world from him.
As the dead rise and an ancient evil begins to awaken, Cyners must decide how much of himself he is willing to sacrifice for the truth-and whether saving the people he loves will require him to become the very monster they feared.
The throne remembers him.
Soon, the world will too.