War has broken out, and Arin finds himself in the thick of it, surrounded by unreliable new allies with whom he will have to oppose his enemy - the empire. Even though Arin had convinced himself that he no longer loved Kestrel, he still had not forgotten her or the person she had become. She was more concerned about the fate of the empire than the lives of innocent people - let alone him. In any case, he thinks so.

Kestrel in the north ends up in a merciless labor camp. And while the girl is desperately looking for a way to escape, at the same time she really wants Arin to know what she had to sacrifice for him. How she wants the empire to pay for everything it did to her... But no one has ever gotten what they wanted for nothing.

The war is in full swing, and Arin and Kestrel understand that the world is changing. The East is opposed to the West, and they find themselves in the middle. Will they really be able to win after so many losses?