Since Kihrin D'Mon destroyed the Stone of Shackles and unleashed demons across the empire of Quur, he's been running—from soldiers, from consequences, from the weight of what he's done. The world he broke is hunting him, and there's nowhere left to hide that doesn't feel like a trap waiting to spring. His flight brings him face to face with Janel Theranon, a Joratese woman who knows his name before he speaks it, who carries secrets in her eyes and a plea on her lips that will drag him deeper into danger than he's ever known. She needs his help against forces that could shatter cities, against a rebellion simmering in shadows, against a dragon whose fury could turn stone to ash. But the real threat is Relos Var, the wizard who has haunted Kihrin's steps like a ghost with unfinished business. Janel believes Var has found the Name of All Things, a Cornerstone artifact of such staggering power that it could reshape reality itself, and if she's right, then every move Kihrin makes might already be known, every escape route already closed. Because what Relos Var wants isn't conquest or glory or even the world—it's Kihrin himself, and the price of that wanting might be everything Kihrin believes in, everything he's fought to protect, everything he thought he could never be forced to surrender.