BOOK I: FALLING SUN "Gods of mine: fire, earth, and stars above. Accept my blood, my spirit, and my love." A princess with a heart of crystal. A prince on the hunt for vengeance. Vasilisa of Belnopyl bears a forbidden power - a crystal heart that places her at the center of the return of forgotten gods and their divine judgement. Yet as the stars begin to fade from the sky and her powers grow, so too does the line between savior and destroyer blur... Yesugei, the ninth son of the Great Khan, searches for revenge and truth as dark forces ravage the Hungry Steppe. But with the dying of the light comes the dying of empires, and soon the hunter becomes the hunted, lost in a land far from home...