One planet. Two worlds.

Long have the halves upheld segregation so that both the Kingdoms of Magic and the Civilizations of Man could thrive without each other.

Nadine Hunt is a Mask who walks the line as one of the many agents of balance, but when her latest case calls her back to her hometown, things get personal. An old friend is implicated in what seems like harmless dabbling in the arcane, that is, until she discovers the scheme he works behind his own belated return home. From there, Nadine is swept into the another side, where she is determined to put and end to the atrocities he has only just begun to put into motion.

Willem Tarrant walks the line between the worlds as no other can. He sees himself as above the balance and his visions have many others follow his lead to where only power can be the true power. He and his friends have been through much together and it all culminates in Ablrooke, where the seeds of their ideal world will be planted. The road ahead stretches out before them in every direction until it finally ends exactly where it started. When a face from his past appears to be an obstacle, Willem is more than happy to address his estranged sister’s fateful play against him.

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