Sachi Takahashi has reached her long-sought goal—the island Kingdom of Montagar on the other side of the world from her homeland of Isemoto. She knows now that she has a destiny to fulfill. That destiny means that Montagar is just a waypoint. And even here, far beyond her family’s reach, someone keeps trying to kill her.

Two oceans away, a young Darsälaamic woman, not quite human, searches for her hero—someone prophecies say will save the world. Someone Sahla is foretold to assist… and with whom she will fall in love.

Little does Sahla realize her hero won’t be who—or what—she thinks.