Jeana’s heart was breaking with grief. Two great warriors—two people she loved—by the will of evil gods and even more evil men, met in a cruel duel. Behind them was their shared victory in a gold-filled gorge, and that crazy night of the carnival, when harsh warriors of the desert came for their lives. Back then they stood shoulder to shoulder and won. But what was ahead? Only the death of one of them and the destruction of the very world that gave them friendship and filled their days with light.
And over Jeana’s planet, two moons rose again—moons her people worshiped: the people of wanderers, outcasts, and sages. But there were other peoples too. Their hordes crashed down on the walls of Al-Rassana in a bloody avalanche…