Mryandia is fracturing. As nations arm for war, a secret conspiracy known as the True Ascendancy orchestrates a deadlier symphony of shadows, and its discordant melody threatens to unmake the world.

In the war-torn north, a hardened commander must forge an alliance with her sworn enemy to survive a conflict she no longer understands. In the capital, a lady with a gift for seeing lies plays a dangerous game of treason in the King's own court. In a hidden laboratory, a brilliant alchemist fights to keep her healing art from the hands of men who would twist it into a weapon. And in a cursed, sunken city, a lost navigator makes a desperate bargain with a mad god that could rewrite reality itself.

As their paths converge, these four women must master their own powers before the final, terrible chord of the Shadow's Symphony is struck, and an age of silence falls upon the land.