THE RISING HAS BEGUN Marcus, son of Barsadias, of the five hundred and ninety-eighth legion of our King Zoren, is defeated. After being buried alive, he emerges to the destruction and loss the king's armies have left in their wake. Believing it's all his fault and determined to rectify the actions he had no control over, Marcus begins to gather an army, but after the elves refuse to join him, help comes from where he least expects it. As a prisoner of war, Aleksia is forced to heal the soldiers wounded in the Battle of Amarisa, but that's not all Zoren wants from her. Isolated from those she cares about, a war for her allegiance will be waged as the king works hard to make her the greatest of his tamrasa. Hidden in a secret room, Miriam doesn't know how to get back to Jaybez or how to protect the six young lives that are suddenly in her charge. In the midst of the cull, every slave is being hunted but when Jaybez's cell is found empty, the handmaiden becomes far greater prey, and the hunter will stop at nothing until he finds her. Battles will be lost and won in this epic conclusion to The Forsaken Trilogy.