Aria’s life will never be the same again. Now everything is different. In Sanmerat—friends and faithful allies; in Vastangar—enemies and traitors. So who is he now? A demon’s shadow and servant, or the one destined to return the True Magi to the path of virtue and service to the Light? And does Aria even have a choice? After all, his life is still in the hands of the ruler of Sanmerat, who has her own plans for him.
For more than a thousand years, no one in either the mortal world or the world of spirits has been a match for Daina’s power. For more than a thousand years, the demon didn’t know the word “fear.” But an ancient evil has awakened—far stronger than she is—and Daina will have to face again the horrors that once forced her to destroy the mages of the fog.