About the book: year / The Mage King Kaedehen organizes a merciless purge of magicians during the civil war. Eolin, the last daughter of the mages and sole heir to their forbidden craft, finds refuge in the Southern Forest. When she meets the mysterious Akmael, heir to the throne of this cruel kingdom, she chooses a path of hope, temptation, betrayal and war. Desire draws Eolin into the dark embrace of Akmael, but fate binds her to Cory of the East Selene, a cunning magician whose ambitions stretch beyond love and loyalty. Can she trust those men? Among powerful sorcerers and cruel deception, Eolin must find a path to freedom , or she will burn at the stake.