In an empire built on fear, trust is an act of war.

As a child, Vaye watched a crowd of angry villagers drown her mother for sorcery. It was just the latest act of violence against her people, long held responsible for summoning the dark goddess who turned the sky into a weapon. But the villagers were mistaken—it was Vaye, not her mother, who had inherited the deity’s gifts.

Imagine what people will do if they find out she’s trying to dig her buried goddess back up.

When Vaye sneaks into an elite military academy to steal back her heritage, her path tangles with two strangers carrying secrets of their own: an insurgent sent to destroy the empire from within and an exile cast out by her family for her forbidden desires.

A dark epic of stolen magic, the price of power, and ancient forces that are not what they seem.