"Utopia, once created, cannot long endure the onslaught of human nature." The Great Destruction brought Earth to its knees. As centuries passed, humanity grew into the near-utopian realm of Tartica, founded on free love, dedicated to living off nature, and committed to repopulating civilization. Reyne's only desire is to marry Mithany, raise a family, and reap the promise of a simple life. But Reyne's hopes are shattered when assassins from the parallel domain of Evidar, a brutal world condemned to exist forever in darkness, arrive on Tartica just days before his wedding... and mark him for death. Elsewhere, benevolent leaders guiding Tartica's ideal society succumb to dark ambitions based on tainted promises and spark events that threaten to set millennia of cultural harmony ablaze. As Reyne refuses to accept that he alone can pass through to a parallel realm—that he doesn't believe exists—to...

Utopia is slipping away. Teth is burning. Rebellion is exploding across the realm. Tartica is in chaos... all but for the Kingdom of Adelle under the tight grip of Chancellor Tomelai's secret police—Druin Derr's KCG. Governmental and religious leaders struggle to retain their hold on power while the Devil's Blacksmith inches closer to Tartica's ruination and Evidar's salvation.As civilization crumbles all around him, Reyne's soul mirrors Tartica's downfall; forced to abandon his bride-to-be; his brother ripped from his life; sent on a quest he neither believes in nor wants any part of; and alone, joined only by a mysterious man he doesn't trust.As Reyne prepares for an impossible transition through the Void to enter the dark realm of Evidar, he plots his own deception. But Evidar assassins are on his trail. They know he's alive and they're not only getting close, they've found him!With betrayal lurking in the shadows, Tartica's future, Evidar's...