Pieces and pawns—set out on the great chessboard of the Ordered—have begun to move. Rakot and Reyna collide with the revived power of the Ancient Gods; Silvyia Nagval storms the Valley of Magi; Klara Hümmel—having freed the children—goes searching for the missing husband; Matvey Isidorti prepares to throw himself into the unknown; and the harpy Gelerrа heads toward Hedin, the One Who Knows the Darkness, into the very heart of the gloom, to the boundaries of the Unnameable’s domains.
Do they act of their own will? Who are the players that forced them to move? Or are the suspicions that all of this is part of some truly grand plan unfounded?