Ardwinna is now the leader of the nomadic Canalat people after her father and brother fall in battle. Forced into the company of the noble Lord who came to her aid, she discovers an ally where she never thought she would find one.

Odian is the overlooked middle son of his five brothers, all great Lords of the mighty Chavathan nation. Quick to anger and notoriously prideful, his interactions with the teenage leader of the rag tag tribe on the outskirts of his lands help build his identity in a way he never dreamed.