Introduction: Grief is quieter than war, but it cuts deeper. Lyra knows this - she鈥檚 been living with both.Branded a traitor and shadowed by the weight of a crown that never should鈥檝e fallen, she drifts from one city to the next with only a blade at her side, silence for company and nothing more than a vague riddle.The one who fled is stained with black magic. He knows the way to the bloodied halls, and he remembers his own. Find him in the shadow of the low lantern.Korie has been hiding for ten years. While the world wrote its story without him, he disappeared into silence, determined to remain hidden. Too bad Lyra is about to thrust him back towards a life he's determined to leave buried.With Korie at her back - steady, scarred and weird - Lyra is pulled into a mystery tangled with gods, ghosts, and the kind of truth that doesn鈥檛 stay buried....