Sometimes we escape the past. Other times we are left haunted. With the world watching after the tragic events in Prague, the White Elm is on damage control. A councilor lost. An apprentice scarred. Ancient alliances shaken. Power seems determined to find its level. Amidst this escalating chaos, Aristea and Renatus struggle to reconcile their failures and the toxic secrets fostering new tensions between them. Aristea tests the boundaries of their friendship, and her position as a council apprentice, in her fixation with saving him and the others she loves. The mistakes of the past continue to unravel but for the Dark Keeper and his apprentice, who they were and who they want to be, weighs heavily, when each choice might be a step down the wrong path...
