Things were finally looking up: escaped from the gladiator pits of Dahran, Aletheia not only has a new understanding of her enemies and a team of allies by her side, but her old lover back, miraculously escaped from prison and bearing secrets from the inside.Then bands of enemy monks begin to find them, despite being undercover and on the far side of the continent. It seems impossible--but so was her lover's escape. And as the attacks grow more dea...