Hope Lives. Now they must find him.

Upon discovering their true purpose, Sovereign Prince Calden and his Bind turn their efforts toward finding the lost Empyreal Guardian who can save their self-destructing world. Only, without any clear direction of where to start, Calden must rely on fragments of information buried deep within his subconscious-information only found through his violent episodes in the other mind.

When he fails to trigger an episode, Calden enlists Elias's help on a quest back to the crypt where they almost lost Norielle to the Blood Wardens. But instead of finding what he seeks, Calden unearths a long-buried secret that challenges everything he believes about the Wardens, Silvirdia's Empyreal Guardian, and even his own mother.

Reeling from the betrayal and following his only lead on the missing Guardian, Calden steers his Bind across perilous seas toward the enemy kingdom of Raevre. However, with Norielle's Warden training incomplete, Calden beset by doubts, and distrust rising about the Sovereign Prince's rebellious methods, the bonds between the Bind will be tested like never before.