Rhona is free from her life debt to the Trinity, but the weight of her alternative path bears down heavily on her heart and mind. Eli, her Eli, was bitten by a Lycan and has defected their group, running away from Rhona, Roman and the others across the Fallow and to the Continent beyond.

Rhona finds her heart and mind warring with each other, as a darkness begins to embed and poison her. Asta sees the coming change in her friend, but struggles with her own inner turmoil as she comes to terms with the loss of the Crone, her grandmother. As her understanding of her heritage deepens, she suspects changes are occurring among her friends and within herself.

Rhona, Asta, Finian, Roman and Jax begin their alternative path: across the cryptic history of the Fallow and the legacy of Falin and the Fallen Sisters, as they encounter the witches’ council, and other strange creatures of the now vast Continent.