Lil Towler has crossed worlds, spoken with gods, and nearly drowned beneath an unfamiliar sky. Desperate to save Eldara from the growing power of Chaos, she refuses to leave empty-handed. But when a man appears from thin air intent on killing her, Lil’s unstable magic sends her somewhere unexpected instead: Idrum, the military college holding together what remains of a dying world.

Rikka Az’Kedi is the disappointment of her family. Younger sister to Director Zin Az’Kedi, the gifted linguist prefers the chaos of the harbor taverns and the company of passing sailors to the suffocating expectations of Idrum. But when a man from her past arrives alongside a woman claiming to be from another world, Rikka is pulled into something far more dangerous than she’s prepared for.

Lil’s world is collapsing under the return of a rising god. Rikka’s has been crumbling for three hundred years since the dragons vanished during the last Shift.

Now, with both worlds nearing the edge of ruin, Lil and Rikka are forced into an uneasy alliance where ancient secrets, dangerous magic, and long-forgotten truths may be the only thing standing between survival and destruction.