The worst has finally happened. The Melded Earths are in chaos, Hel and Kaia are missing, and Bast is waiting for the axe to fall at any moment. His only hope lies with the strange and blood-thirsty vampyr now part of their reality. When Hel awakens, she's far more than a world away. Her hunters have finally caught her and her power is nothing compared to her captor Sol— the Emperor of Suns. As she learns the devastating truth of her heritage, she realises there's no way she can escape. It all comes back to the devouring contagion that's left a shrine of dead stars in its wake and the unbreakable bond between Hel and Bast that will be either their saviour or their death knell. It's not just their lives and their world that hangs in the balance. It's everything.