daevabad has fallenafter a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic nahid leader banu manizheh and her resurrected commander dara must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious warring peoplebut the bloodletting and loss of his beloved nahri have unleashed the worst demons of daras dark past to vanquish them he must face some ugly truths about his history and put himself at the mercy of those he once considered enemieshaving narrowly escaped their murderous families and daevabads deadly politics nahri and ali now safe in cairo face difficult choices of their own while nahri finds peace in the old rhythms and familiar comforts of her human home she is haunted by the knowledge that the loved ones she left behind and the people who considered her a savior are at the mercy of a new tyrant ali too cannot help but look back and is determined to return to rescue his city and the family that remains seeking support in his mothers homeland he discovers that his connection to the marid goes far deeper than expected and threatens not only his relationship with nahri but his very faithas peace grows more elusive and old players return nahri ali and dara come to understand that in order to remake the world they may need to fight those they once loved and take a stand for those they once hurtthe final chapter in the bestselling critically acclaimed daevabad trilogy in which a conwoman and an idealistic djinn prince join forces to save a magical kingdom from a devastating civil war