Arendellie's best friend, Kathreen, has left her to proclaim the Promise.
Deeply disturbed, she leaps at a chance to become Queen of Camil Hasseleighton, hoping to leave behind her past life and all memory of the Promise in the complexity and excitement of court intrigue, but a scroll given her by Kathreen has the power to change her life completely.
Azshbir, another friend of Kathreen Alarion, is thrown into prison.
While struggling with the greatest despair he has ever known, he is gi.
