She was exiled for her power. Now, she is the only thing standing between two worlds and eternal ice. Elara Nyx saved the Elemental Grid, but her victory came at a devastating cost. Branded a danger by the very Archons she protected, Elara is now an Exile, forced to hunt the shadows of Crystawards with her team of outcasts: the fiery Lira and the strategic Kai. But the enemy they are hunting has evolved. Corvus, the ancient architect of chaos, has returned not as a ghost, but as a conqueror. He is building an army of Rime-Wraiths-terrifying anti-life forms designed to consume magic and erase the structural integrity of the world. When Corvus launches a brutal siege on the Ice Citadel, Elara must use her forbidden "Unbound" power to hold the line. But the attack on Crystawards is only a distraction. Corvus's true target is the fracture in the Veil-Elara's home. He has initiated the Grand Containment: a catastrophic spell designed to freeze the human town of Northglade into permanent, crystalline stasis. Now, Elara must fight on two fronts. From the besieged gates of the Nexus to the frozen streets of her childhood home, she must lead the Apex Bindings into a war against perfection itself. But with Kai's magic shattered by Corvus's new weapon and her father captured in the ice, Elara faces an impossible choice: adhere to the laws of the Archons, or unleash the chaotic storm of the Source to shatter the Grand Containment. To save the future, she must break the ultimate law. Elara Nyx and the Grand Containment is the explosive second book in the YA fantasy series. As the war spans from the magical towers of Crystawards to the frozen shadows of the human world, Elara and her friends must discover that the strongest magic isn't order-it's resolve.