Branded the 'Drought Child' and cast out by her village for her dark skin, Ila carried a lifetime of prejudice as she fled up the cursed Scarred Peak.
After years of brutal, solitary training, she returns not for vengeance, but as a weapon of absolute merit whose existence defies all system prejudice.
When the Crown is threatened, can Ila's impossible skill force a King to shatter the laws of bias, or will the world finally succeed in calling her fragile?