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A new religion is rising, gathering followers of prophetess Jane Oden. Her sister, Cinzia, is by her side, but both the Church and the Nazaniin assassins are still on their trail. Knot, his true nature now revealed, is haunted by the memories of others. Astrid travels to Tinska for answers, but the childlike vampire has enemies waiting for her. And in the empire of Roden, a tiellan woman finds herself with a new protector who wants to use her extraordinary abilities.

When a series of dark rituals devastate the fledgling Church of Canta, Jane and Cinzia realise they have ignored the movements in the shadows for too long. With Knot at her side, Cinzia deals with dark beings to fight the greater evil. Meanwhile, Astrid's attempts to elude the Black Matron backfire, and she faces that which she fears above all things: her own past. Winter, in hopes of regaining something of her old life, returns to Pranna to find the village nothing like it used to be. With Urstadt the soldier and Galce the tailor at her side, she must choose how to use her still-growing, all-consuming power.

An einem eisigen Morgen ziehen zwei Fischer einen schwerverletzten Mann aus dem Golf von Nahl. Noth, wie sie den Fremden nennen, hat seine Erinnerungen verloren und weiß nicht, wer er ist. Winter, eine junge Frau aus dem seit Jahrhunderten unterdrückten Volk der Tiellan, verliebt sich in den Fremden, aber auch sie verbirgt ein Geheimnis: Die Droge Frostfeuer verleiht ihr magische Macht, zerstört sie aber auch langsam.

The fourth book in the epic Chaos Queen series. Many forces converge on the great city of Triah, bent on its destruction. By sea, Empress Cova of Roden sails with her armada, determined to bring the rival nation under her yoke. From land, Winter, the Chaos Queen, brings her tiellan army, set on revenge. And their advance brings a yet more terrible army still: awoken by the Chaos Queen's powers, daemons mass on the border between worlds, waiting for a way in.