In the second novel of the Ilduin trilogy starts off after the defeat of Glassidor, in The Shadows of Myth. They journey to the land of the Arni, Ratha's and Giri's home. It is a desert in which none have ever seen before, where the stones are living themselves. On the horizon, sits an evil so vile, that no one has whispered his name in many years. In the time since the first age, the Arni have been enslaved by this evil. Where both men and women were taken without thought of what it might bring. Now the threat of the Bozandari soldiers has become to great, and the fight for freedom is coming at an alarming rate. With Archer and the rest of the company brings about the transformation that the Arni people need to get back what was stolen.

With everything falling into place around them, Tess is no longer shielded from her forgotten past. Now it comes in little pieces, and none of it is good. Death seems to be what she has always been apart of, and now... will always be.

Rachel Lee has done a wonderful job bringing to life another world. From one situation to the next, the tale just keeps getting better -- with Tess' story unraveling, Archer's identity revealed, Tom's new sight, and Sara's very own discovery left me on the edge of my seat. Hopefully, we won't have to wait to long for the third novel. I do however recommend reading Shadows of Myth before this one because without it, too much is lost.

Book Summary

For Tess Birdsong and her companions there will be no warm homecoming. The death of one evil exposed the beating, seething heart of another far more dangerous power. Together they must go to Anahar, to help free the Anari people from their enslavers, and purge the darkness in their own hearts. But that ancient city holds more than the key to Anari liberation. In its temple lie the secrets of the Ilduin, women of almost godlike power.

Tess, who remembers nothing of her past, is terrified by the power of her Ilduin blood. But Tess's mind conceals more than fear. There is war, and pain, and death, and anguished grief. And somehow she must face it all again, guided only by the shocking secrets of a temple as old as time itself...

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