Addi and Laura are at the edge of something dangerous. They're on a mission to save their friends from Lord Quiln's most vile prison, but when the jailbreak goes haywire, Addi finds herself alone at a mountain lake, staring at a black tree and searching for answers.
Before Addi knows what hit her, she tumbles backward in time to the ruined city of Triudest-only it isn't in ruins anymore, and she is the Queen! If Addi can't balance her own interests with the needs of her citizens, Otherside will devolve into war, innocent people will die, and Northern spies will sow a plot to destroy her queendom.
Sometimes, there's no fixing the past. But if Addi can only find the calm fire inside herself, maybe she can save the present, and maybe she can stop Lord Quiln from killing a god.