The Fractured Heart of the Desert

Keera faces the cost of trusting the wrong person, with the desert's fate—and every life bound to it—hanging in the balance.

She must choose between freeing the city she swore to protect from a cruel tyrant and crossing the sands to heal her broken Heart, even as the desert's magic spirals out of control.

Unsure she can trust her own leadership again, she still fights for more than survival: for Erix and the people who have become her home.

Erix is fracturing too, haunted by confusing visions as he races to restore the Heart of the Desert.

His unstable magic makes him a threat to everyone he means to save, especially Keera, who anchors him even as staying beside him could destroy her.

With the desert on the brink of ruin and enemies closing in, they must stand together in the storm or risk losing their world and each other.