Having escaped death at the hands of the woman behind the king’s great deception, Gatekeeper Jora Lanseri is determined to help end the 100-year war that killed her beloved brother and ultimately her entire hometown. After she sends her allies to Serocia’s three enemy nations to negotiate a peace treaty on behalf of the new queen, three delegates from each country gather on the Isle of Shess to begin establishing a new nation to oversee the equitable distribution of life-saving godfruit to all. But one delegate isn’t who she claims to be...