Of all the things Emily Stout expected to discover on her quest for vengeance, love and destiny were not among them. Yet she found both only to lose them for the most pitiful of rewards: her life.Leaving the blood-soaked fields of Juatwa behind, Emily now journeys to the treacherous Mountains of Khaz Mal to track down and rescue the other half of her soul from slavery. Such a feat will require both careful planning and experience. Emily must accomplish it with neither.Even so, her destiny looms before her. Lucifan, former city of angels, faces annihilation at the hands of a tyrant, and only Emily can save it and, by extension, the world. For she has the ultimate weapon at her disposal, and should she fall, there will be no other to take it up in her place.