At once, the League is the ruling power of the parallels, with Jory at its forefront— a nation redesigned, a wealth of peace for both man and vamp. At least that’s what they thought. Jalayna’s eerie visions open the door to discovery. Not only has Lochnone’s escape from the Land of the Forgotten Ones ripped its seam, allowing the banished to make waves in the parallels, but the root of his turner is unveiled— all under the enigma of a dark-robed vampire. The answers lay beyond the maze of portals, where the allies believe the former Triud has made camp from the Afterlife, building a ghostly spawn to wreak havoc upon them. But when Vivy is pulled into an alternate reality, falling under the spell and mystique of a dark Lord taking on the form of Jory, it becomes harder to decipher the mind games of the elders from the deepest truths building in the shadows.