A Song of Legends Lost

The Nine Lands have rested for three hundred years on a magical-bond system called Invoking, where noble bloodlines tie to the spirits of fallen warrior ancestors who fight through them in battle. The system is breaking. A slum-dwelling girl named Temi can invoke without noble blood, which the Empire considers heresy. A young noble heir named Kyaane is being groomed for an Invoker line he does not want. An aging general named Jinao is watching the war on the borderlands turn against the Empire for the first time in his career. Ayinde weaves the three timelines across a 600-page debut that asks who the ancestors are really fighting for.