Three months after the events of Part I, Reidara is becoming acquainted with his new title. Yet, within the city stirs protests as many do not accept the aeran as meister. In an effort to gain favor with the people, Reidara attempts to prove himself within the annual Games of Garason. Meanwhile the clues about the strange cube, found after the battle three months ago, are slowly coming together. The meisters initiate an investigation but quickly realize they are not the only interested party.

The journey has been long, difficult and far from over. Reidara has found himself in the cold regions of northern Gorondir while chasing what little clues he has about Venus' whereabouts. The aeran stumbles upon a group of people that are not entirely unfamiliar with Garason and its meisters. But instead of getting closer to Venus, Reidara seems to further dig himself deeper into the mystery of the cubes and the powerful energy they possess. Meanwhile Mustongwing and Oberon have returned north. They gather with Araila Kateela and Armachillian Torell to discuss their plan of action when an unexpected visitor demands an audience and could potentially ruin what Mustongwing has tried to build.

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him – that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. If he has forgotten this, he is not to worry: she will prove it to him. And so Marianne Engel begins to tell him their story, carving away his disbelief and slowly drawing him into the orbit and power of a word he'd never uttered: love.