Synopsis

Ever wish you could hear thoughts?

Sienna can. And she’s sick of it.

She knows everyone’s worst secrets. And she gets headaches.

On the same day her town is destroyed by the evil Other enchantress Annali, she meets a mysterious knight whose thoughts are blocked to her. She naively chooses to trust him, not knowing that he is merely biding time. The very second she succumbs to her power, he will slit her throat.

Brennan enjoys killing Others. He’s good at it. Until the day his whole world changes and he meets a girl with gentle brown eyes. She doesn’t realize she carries a power which could reduce him to a pinkish smear. He doesn’t want to kill her, but he will if he has to. If he can.

They are soon being chased by members of Brennan’s own order, enraged by his betrayal. And Sienna’s power-enhancing staff is a beacon, luring greedy Others toward them like sharks to blood.

Meanwhile, Annali, a psychopathic Other, trained and lethal, is killing her way to the throne and will joyfully vivisect anyone who crosses her path. Sienna has sworn revenge against her.

If Sienna loses the battle to the Other in her head, she will forever be trapped as a spectator of her own body, watching her Other wreak unspeakable cruelties on her loved ones. But how can she defeat Annali without tapping into its strength?

They find friend and foe, joy and pain. They battle grotesque feral mutants, Other greed, human stupidity, and a sand dragon. They must journey through increasingly brutal landscapes, gambling their lives on the hazy promise of freedom in a fabled land.

What they will discover is beyond their imagination. But one thing never changes.

There is always someone left to kill.