Because there was a deeper, darker version of Dragonrend… Now Alduin must learn to live again, not as a devourer of worlds, but as a man.

The Grand Cleric is dead, the Circle saved, and Lorelai Hawke faces an uncertain future. Betrayed by her apostate lover and wrongfully labeled his accomplice, her friends scramble to her aid. But when Lorelai sinks into the oblivion of her darkest secret, Sebastian Vael vows to protect the woman he loves anyway he can.