Set five years after the events on Yamatai, Lara Croft is now a highly sought-after archaeologist, known for her devil-may-care attitude. But it's all a facade. For all the satisfaction her work provides, secretly Lara is miserable. She has spent half a decade running from her pain... until one day fate brings her face to face with it source once more. A sequel to Can't Go Home.

Five years after "the end" in an ending where Balthier and Fran do NOT send word of their survival, Ashe is forced onto the marriage market. Larsa Solidor is coerced into presenting himself and brings with him a mysterious judge magistrate. Balthier/Ashe