The kingdom is dead, its capital burned to ash, and the sky itself bleeds red. In the ruins, corpses stir and rise, whispering with voices that should not be heard. Kaelen, a broken swordsman with nothing left to lose, stumbles into the path of a strange girl bearing a lantern of blue fire. Together, they are drawn into a grim hunt for an ancient artifact that feasts on light and life alike. But every step through the wasteland brings them closer to the truth: the dead are not the kingdom’s greatest threat. The sun itself is dying, and what waits in the dark hungers for far more than blood....