In the wake of two bitter wars that saw the death of her parents and the fall of the Vale, followed by a ruthless reclamation of the territory she'd lost and her blood-soaked vengeance on Cellach Lothian, Nyrielle spent years searching for something that would soothe the jagged wounds in her heart.
While it was true that Nyrielle had recaptured the Vale of Mists, she lost several of her forty-seven progeny in the process and even more in the war that followed when Cellach Lothian's children came of age. Her heart was still filled with hatred, burning with the desire for revenge, but she was also haunted by a terrible, aching loneliness that had plagued her since her parents' death.
