Ten years have passed since the events in Kemarid.

Peace, progress and prosperity flow unhindered across the continent of Koa, only Ciad remains closed to the world.

After receiving a characteristically ambiguous invite, Kara and Jai (because he happened to be there) find themselves led into long forbidden territory, where the past still has surprises to reveal and dangers to overcome.

Immar, Kind of Ildra wants nothing more than to leave the past behind and restore his country’s independence. He has done enough to prove his loyalty to the countries of Koa, tolerated their constant interference and faced assassins who would see a return to the dark days of Segat’s rule. But now he too will face yet more challenges, once the varied skills of a monarch couldn’t have prepared him for.

Aran, despite his best efforts, is becoming something of a legend, but a legend troubled be dreams and voices, bringing with them the growing realisation, that yet again, the people he cares about are being put at risk.

Three sets of events, disparate in every sense, thousands of miles apart and yet all linked by one person, the enigma that is Mia Svara.