“From my position high above, I saw the embers on the Hoarfrost fade into smoke and noted the joy spread across the Usurper’s features. If I could have felt anything I might have been scared, but instead I was floating away, hearing his words echo out across the throne room and then being shouted from the rooftops. Dead. The Heir to the Ice Flame is dead.” Princess Nina Fiordlasher lies dead, and her country is sliding into turmoil. Her allies are devastated, and her Resistance fighters are desperate to avenge their fallen princess as the Usurper prepares for his coronation. When the Winter Spirit offers Erik a quest to save Nina from the Land Beyond, he is all too eager to accept. But will he succeed when traitors lurk closer than he thinks? Will the Ice Flame burn again or will the Usurper reign triumphant?
