After surviving the attack on Coral Bay, Liv Brodbeck's most deadly secret is in danger of being exposed. To protect her, Archmagus Jurian send Liv, Wren, and Arjun with a group of Journeymen to the fortress-city of Akela Kila, in Arjun's homeland of Lendh ka Dakruim. The Well of Bones, grave of the Vædic Lady Costia, is erupting, spewing forth an endless tide of re-animated corpses, and Liv will need to use everything she's learned to survive. But the true danger waits for her back at Coral Bay, where the future of the Mages Guild is thrown into turmoil by the new monarch of Lucania...