Annie Abbott has always felt the quiet pulse of magic in the world?the life in stone and star, wind and water. But when her awakening power erupts in a battle that shakes the realms, the cost is devastating. Annie now lies suspended between life and death, her magic sealed behind a shadowed veil no one can reach.

Across a blistering desert refuge, elves, dwarves, druids, and queens keep vigil, waiting for the girl who once stood against darkness itself. Without Annie, the alliance cannot face the rising forces of the underworld. And time is slipping away.

Far across the sea, the Red and White Witches?Annie's mentors and the last guardians of ancient wisdom?are imprisoned deep within the legendary dungeons of Rognap Nar, a fortress carved into a sheer pillar of volcanic stone rising five hundred feet above the waves. No army can breach it. No spell can break its walls.

As the last battle of the fey gathers on the horizon, Annie's allies must attempt the impossible: call her back from the edge of death and unravel the secrets of a citadel older than mortal history.

Because if Annie Abbott does not rise again, the world's last light may fade?and magic itself may fall silent.