The Veil descends with monsters in its wake, swallowing the world in wolves and white. Starvation and the promise of monsters threaten humanity as the Veil grows, heralding eternal winter, and if Faron does nothing everyone will die. Armed with secrets to forever change the world, Faron must choose between abandoning humanity to certain extinction, or slaughtering thousands of innocents and subjugating all who remain to save them.Harrowed by the truth of his family and the weight of nations, Faron must become the thing he hates most if there’s any chance of saving humanity from the growing Veil…Even if it kills him.