Long is the dark. Swift is the dawn.

Wren Degrona is about to become the newest Regent of Zahira. Yearning for one last taste of freedom, she and her best friend Drea venture to the Borderlands – a near-lawless strip of land dividing the continent, and the only thing separating the feuding realms of Zahira and Saibhrist. But, their final adventure sours as an act of self-defense leaves the Saibhrist heir dead and Wren fleeing the blame.

Wren knows that if her actions are realized, the first war in hundreds of years will ravage her homeland. As she navigates the changes her new station brings, as well as the toll of taking a life, powers both mortal and mystical threaten the Regent and her delicate deception. Wren soon realizes that her secrets can only remain hidden for so long, and the only way to escape the darkness surrounding her is to go through it.