He just wanted to keep his brother safe. Instead, he sparked a chain of events that could destroy an empire.

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Kasperi Ironstone is a street thief with a rare gift—he can bend light and disappear. When a rebel leader uncovers his secret, Kas is offered an impossible job: steal the Emperor’s ring or be exposed. He refuses… until his younger brother decides to take on the mission himself.

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To save Sali, Kas breaks into the palace. But the mission goes wrong and to protect his brother, Kas sacrifices himself.

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Eight years later, Kas escapes from the Empire’s brutal prison camps with unlikely allies to find a world on the brink: rebellion festers in the streets, an enemy nation readies for invasion, and his brother—now a leader among the rebels—isn't the boy he once knew.

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As Kas fights to reclaim his freedom and protect what’s left of his family, others are making moves of their own—an enemy spy torn between loyalty and truth, and a young empress struggling to hold her fractured court together before war arrives at her gates.

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In a city where betrayal runs deep and magic comes at a cost, three lives are about to collide—and the consequences will shape the fate of a continent.