Selah must return to her desert homeland face the brother who betrayed her and the king she hates.The next key to the Qinnowr lays hidden in the land of the Golden Sun. What Selah doesn't know: someone else has found it first. Now old enemies must become allies. Selah won't return to the desert alone. William and the Eleven journey as a delegation. They must forge a new treaty with the Golden Sun Throne, one that is badly needed, for war brews between the lands. An army is on the move, and Selah and William are running out of time.