Lucan Greystone long lived under an alias, a new body, and a new face, but it didn’t help him forget the night the holy city of Aelith fell. When a murder attempt sends him adrift to a Riman town, he finds himself at their mercy, for the wound to his chest can’t heal. Desperate to reunite with his friends, Lucan must depend on the Harrow family to trek the long, perilous road and suffer Elene Harrow’s company, the town’s heathen who nearly killed him. But when Elene discovers one of Rima’s children ensnared in darkness, the journey may be more than they bargained for. For now, Lucan must unearth the cause while preserving his secret identity. No one can know he is a celestial of the cosmos, Rima’s sole descendant.