Chad, the eldest living son of the most powerful lord in the kingdom, has been groomed all his life for leadership & command; raised to be what would be needed to fill his father's boots; to handle power and responsibility.
Jeb, orphaned at age six, lives in the loft of a barn next to an ale house and trains horses.
The only thing they share are their birthdays - both born during the same eclipse fifteen years earlier - yet, both of them will undergo great change resulting from the consequences of a king's foolish act. Both will have to take a hard look at who they are, and what kinds of men they want to become.
It is mid-autumn in a kingdom where seasons are thirty years long, death is temporary, magical songs destroy minds, and two kings have alternated rule for over eight hundred years. But this year, the Winter Prince is missing and the Summer King's seventy-five year old body is giving out. For Chad and Jeb, more than their own lives depend on the decisions they'll make.