Blurb Caelan Ashworth returns from a mission only to find his kingdom burning and everyone he swore to protect, dead. He then discovers that the architect of this destruction is his own mentor, the man who raised him to be the perfect weapon. With only a desperate enemy deserter and a vengeful survivor to be his ally. Caelan has three weeks to cross the deadly wilderness and to reach his betrayer before he becomes untouchable. But hunting the man who taught him everything he knows means confronting a darker truth, that he has been a pawn in a game far older and more sinister than he imagined. The path to vengeance will cost more than blood and it will force Caelan to choose between the killer he was trained to be and the man he might become. Three broken men embark on an impossible journey and a bond is forged in blood and ash that will either save them or destroy everything they had built. Some betrayals run deeper than kingdoms.