Two halves of a world on the brink of war... One lost artifact that can bring them together... A young woman whose blood is the key, Briley Hendricks is the Vesperian heir to a pair of Novaris colony's Founder rings, which contain the DNA-locked colonial charter. The now lost historic agreement was meant to secure equality for lush, urbanized southern Vesperia and inhospitable but mineral-rich northern Arkturia on this new haven for humanity. Ten years ago, Briley's parents were taken from her; five years ago, in a brutal attack attributed to Arkturians, her innocence was ripped from her and the charter ring stolen. Determined to overcome the past and become her own woman, Briley joins the military and is stationed at the demilitarized zone between the two hemispheres. There, she is torn between Napalm, the masterful, unstoppable conqueror of Arkturia poised to take on Vesperia itself; and Dr. Uiseann Berrit, the seductive genius historian who studies the rise of the great warlord and his locust-like, insatiable armies. As Berrit and Napalm each race to help her uncover the villains of her past that threaten not only her life but the future of the entire world, how can Briley choose between the two men? And does she really even want to?
