Polaris is no place for children to grow up.

As half-Satyr Trailblazers, Triton and Ali have seen more death than most people ever will. Yet they have never witnessed anything quite so strange: the lord’s eldest son, publicly murdered just a month ago, now wandering through the mists of the Forbidden Zone.

When Triton tries to uncover the truth, he loses a horn to a monster—and receives a “reward” from the lord’s family that he cannot refuse.

When Ali finds her friend again, she discovers that they have already been swept away by the tides of their age, devoured and picked clean.

Their mother’s long-sealed true name is called out in the hoarse voice of an undead creature within the Forbidden Zone. And in the studies of the nobility, conspiracies are being woven that will decide whether the Northwatch sees another dawn—or slips forever into the abyss of despair.

In this desperate land called Halcyon, survival itself is an act of rebellion.