With the same timeline as Empire of Storms, we jump back to Chaol's story as they journey to the southern continent in hopes of healing. Chaol and Nesryn arrive in Antica in hopes for an alliance with the Kagan whose armies may be the last hope of Erilea. This book also brings back Yrene, who we met in the Assassin's Blade as the bar maid that Celeana taught to defend herself. Now as a renown healer of the Torre Cesme, she is enlisted in the task of healing Chaol from his wounds from Rifthold.