"Her sister swore that she would never let her die; now the entire world may pay the price. For three hundred years, Erekos and Weigenland have fought to hold the borderland between the two nations. As the first storms of the flood season scour Erekos from the swamplands to the feet of the mountains, the Erekoi king discovers a dangerous new weapon that might be able to end the war: the witch Achane, who has raised her sister from the dead. Achane and her sister, dragged apart on the very doorstep of a temple, must work to find each other again before the magic that binds them also kills them. In the process, Achane must overcome her grief--and the temptation of the king's plans for Erekos. Meanwhile, on the mountainous border between the two warring lands, the student Erlen finds his research interrupted by the approaching conflict. Driven by a militant love for this neutral territory and its people, he determines to defend his newfound homeland at any cost. In a land where gods walk the earth and myth manifests along the rivers and in the mountains, ordinary men and women must fight to make their own stories before the war unwrites them all"--Page 4 of cover.