Description:

Frida d’Armand was once the most dreaded swordswoman of the Circle Sea.
Now war has taken everything from her ship, her crew, her lover.

Hope is rekindled when a sorcerous tome transports her to a hidden valley halfway across the continent. There, she finds the love she thought dead—alive and unharmed.

But she has traded one prison for another, for a mighty enchantment secures the valley’s borders, making escape impossible… and often fatal.

When the pair tries to break the spell, they are caught and taken to the lost kingdom of the elves, where they meet the young and ambitious mage Sandelar Seidhanna.

The elf offers them a help him steal the magical artifact powering the valley’s enchantment, and he will send them home.

Yet the artifact is hidden deep within an ancient elven temple, and guarded by more than steel, trap, and spell…

It has a will of its own, and the shadow it casts threatens to consume Frida and her companions long before the journey’s end.