A city built on a buried truth.

A woman who built everything she was not allowed to have.

Rosalie Sharone expected Tursim to be a brief stop on her road to Sceotan. What she finds is a city quietly suffocating. Its women veiled, silenced, told for generations that the law itself denies their freedom.

But custom isn’t law and the truth has been hidden away.

Beneath centuries of doctrine, in the restricted collection of Tursim’s ancient library, the city’s founding promise still exists. A charter that has never been repealed, binding every free person regardless of birth or faith or sex. And now Rosalie must find someone to carry it forward, planting the seeds of all Tursi women’s future.

Meanwhile, an ancient enemy of her mother begins to watch.

Rosalie’s voyage will continue. What she inspires in Tursim will outlast her.

The fifth book in the Innatraea series—an epic fantasy saga of diverse kingdoms, constructed languages, mythical creatures, and the women whose buried histories reshape Innatraea.