Eloran is a world of tyrannical elves, fractious human realms, and the hated, skeletal kaul--with each nation poised to grasp at any advantage over the others.

When Latanna Forgrym's despised father tries to engage her to the youngest son of a powerful, manipulative family, she forges a new path by marrying instead a man she respects but doesn't love. A chance encounter with a pair of mercenaries leads Latanna to a forgotten crown, a relic of forces the world has tried desperately to forget, and gives her the means to break free from her corrupt family--but at the price of a dark transformation that may cost her humanity.

A kaul mercenary travels through the human realms with a companion of no nation, no identifiable species, and no memory--not even the memory of his own name. Latanna's crown sets the man on the path to recovering first his name--Vorykas--and then fragments of his past. The more he remembers, the clearer his connection becomes to the void at the center of creation, the true null that the gods conspired to make the world forget.

As a forbidden book resurfaces, threatening to reveal the knowledge Vorykas seeks, elves invade human lands to suppress it. Latanna and Vorykas must unite to defend the human realm and reveal the truth of the void. But what they learn has the power to shake the world . . . and make the gods tremble.