The Cursed Mother

Winter had taken much from Morrathal.

Year after year, the snowbound village buried its children before they could breathe. Then Lyric was born.

Small. Fierce. Alive.

To some, she is a blessing. To others, a sign that the old stories have not yet finished with the Dravonath. To Ishida and Kâllen, she is simply their daughter-a fragile light in a world that has known too much loss.

But hope has a way of drawing hungry eyes.

As distant powers begin to turn toward Mor...