Book excerpt: Two crowns, one reign. . . . Sarah Lind is now the Queen of Ice. With the help she gave the dragon-shifter dramá as the Moondaughter of prophecy, the man she loves and the Six Realms he protects have survived the Devourer's second invasion. Yet all is still far from well. In the battle's devastating aftermath, she and her family are now in exile in the Seventh Realm, with Earth cut off from them, perhaps forever . . . and the newly invested King of the Six Realms has shut them out. Koriben Sunfilled is now the King of Flame. Broken beyond measure by his father's ultimate sacrifice to save him, he will not risk the one he loves most, Sarah, doing the same. Yet his self-imposed hell is slowly killing him, even as troubles and dangers mount, proving that he and his people need Sarah and her own, now more than ever. At both their Trees' commands, Ben and Sarah will have to mourn, forgive, and heal while learning to be the Monarchs their peoples need—and soon. For as history has taught them all too well, it is one thing to repel a Devourer's invasion . . . . . . and it is quite another to survive the after.