Usurper Someone is killing the Hastened. Brief-lived yet powerful, they’re feared and tightly controlled. Alchemist Veryl toils in a nightside prison. Ura begins the trial to join a sect of warrior monks. Awakened, Tanrel evades a secretive group eager to exploit them. On Sondar the sun never sets, the night never ends. The seas rage forever. Valishar and Arzenjia edge toward war. Amid threats and crumbling binaries, these outcasts must stop corrupt forces before reality shatters.

• Fantasy