As the awakening crossroads between worlds reveal new mysteries, young Commander Rain Barynd and the Order of the Fallen Moon must scramble to challenge rising threats on multiple fronts. A budding alliance with some of the people of Earth holds promise, but enemies are making inroads as well.

With elves, dwarves, and dragons poised under a banner of ancient prophecy to join the fight to preserve freedom on Tenris and elsewhere, alliances among the far more populous and mercurial humans are beginning to fracture, leaving Rain and his closest friends with hard choices, all of them perilous.