Landing on the planet was supposed to bring them closer to a new dawn together, but they've never been further apart. Troylus and Zellendine struggle to finish what they must before they can finally resettle together. But that's no small feat when they're trapped on opposite sides of a mountain range with no way of communicating with each other. Meanwhile, a threat lurks in their new world. It's a threat that they don't understand...even though they've met it before. Back on the ship that's still in orbit, Briar continues to rage with a mind clouded by silver wrath. Will Briar be able to overcome his fury, and will Troylus and Zellendine survive to see their new aurora, or will it all be shattered?

While most of the population of the Spinning Wheel, a Chapter colonization ship, sleeps in their cryo bays, Zellendine and Troylus go through the motions of their shift awake, keeping the ship going. But the first tendrils of the Grimm star, the star that will be their sun on their new planet, are shining in the windows, and with the light comes more changes than they are prepared for. First, a baby is born dead from one of the mechanical wombs on board with no warning that something is wrong. Second, some of the people in the next shift, waking up from their cryo bay for the hand off period on the ship, are stuck in deep, steady REM sleep. And third, while Troylus is on a starwalk to close the shields over the windows because a strange anomaly is detected in front of the ship, the anomaly... attacks. He doesn't have a better description for it. And he doesn't have any way to explain what he does in response to save Zellendine on the other side of the window,...

As the frigid darkness of war descends upon Onyx, Lady Cinder's nights are filled with King Tristan's warm glow. No matter how hard she tries to maintain the smooth exterior of the trained assassin that she is, deep down Cinder knows that she wants to keep Tristan by her side forever. And she'll kill to do it. But what will happen to her moon-soaked moments in the arms of the King if Brix lets it slip that Cinder originally joined Onyx's search for a future queen with the intention of murdering the King? While her brother's closest, most brutal confidant, stews in a prison cell in the bowels of Breakwater's castle, Cinder must recover from wounds by his hands. She's driven to find Brix's cell, make him pay for the havoc he wreaked, slowly wrench answers from him about her own brother's allegiances, and then silence him forever before he burns Tristan's love for her to the ground. Sometimes dark actions are required to protect dark hearts.

They've been waiting their entire lives to land on their new planet, they have to survive two months in space first. But it isn't just strange space phenomenon that want them dead this time. Zellendine and Troylus have to navigate the uncomfortable new reality of having the entire ship awake at once, and more people's eyes are turning silver. Every pair of silver eyes poses a new threat and a new source of rage toward Zellendine. Two months stretches into a treacherous eternity after a voyage that took a millennia. Will everyone survive the descent to their new home planet?

Cinder's whole world is held together and supported by threads no stronger than glass. Killing is the one thing she excels at. But it's hard to hit her mark when she's not sure who to kill first. Returning to her brother without King Tristan's head wasn't the plan. Yet that's exactly what Cinder does. Worse, she asks him to unite with Tristan's forces to fight for the kingdom. Her brother is an accomplished murderer, what will he do when she admits to lending her blade to Tristan's cause? Will she become the next target for assassination? Will all the glass threads shatter?