What gets uncovered can't be covered again. Including the thing standing beside her.
The realm is waking. The dark is smiling. The last mask is about to fall.
Sara was supposed to be broken.
Instead, trapped beneath the heart of Covis Realm, she becomes the spark the dark should have feared. The rivers remember her. The roots answer. Dragons stir in the deep, and every hidden gift buried beneath twenty years of terror begins to rise.
Above her, Saban is done being the weapon darkness made of him. With the bond between them stretched thin and the realm cracking open around him, he leads allies, enemies, and old wounds toward the one place everyone was taught never to enter.
But the warlock has not survived this long by accident.
He has worn lies like crowns. Built laws out of fear. Turned grief into obedience and love into a leash. And now, as Covis finally begins to wake, he is ready to unveil the secret he buried deepest.
A face no one expected.
A truth no heart is ready to survive.
Sara crossed worlds for love. Saban walked through darkness to reach her.
But when the last mask falls, saving the realm may be easier than saving what it does to them.
