The mist is rising—bar your doors and pray for dawn. The monsters have returned.
On a night when the stars themselves seemed to flee, at the jagged brink of the Abyss, elderly Agathe saves an infant from the clutches of a creature thought long extinct. Wounded beyond saving, she expects death—but the fates have other designs. As her blood spills on the stone, youth floods back into her veins.
Yet that miracle is only the beginning.
The child she saves, Belle, is no ordinary babe. Her eyes burn violet—mark of the Blessed, those rare souls the King steals away and calls his salvation. They say the Blessed hold back the Mist that hungers at the kingdom’s borders. Agathe knows better. The King hoards their magic. Feeds upon it.
To uncover the truth, Agathe must walk willingly into the serpent’s nest: the royal court itself. There, amid whispers and deceit, she will face forces darker than the Mist—and secrets that could unravel the very soul of the Kingdom.
She'll be forced to accept a destiny forged in blood and shadow before the Mist consumes them all.
