Lucian and Maalceus are forced to relive some of their worst memories in their own personal history. With Melanie, the Queen of Vervania, taken hostage by the deity of Helviti, the entire palace and the kingdom is brought low. Lucian fights with his own anger and pain at the loss of his Queen and wife. Maalceus fights against his own self resentment at allowing his brother's wife to be taken from them. Worse still, is the fact that they have no way to retrieve her with the gateway to the nineth realm of hell frozen shut. Lucian and Maalceus are forced with a difficult decision as they look for ways to get through the realm. With their choices being wage a war for resources to open their own portal, or track down the only person alive who had found a back door into the hell realms. Kendrick Elkwood. Traitor to the kingdoms and mortal enemy to Vervania and all it stands for. As the Drakkons face their tough decision, an old enemy rises from the past and plans a war that no one knows is coming. Meanwhile, Melanie is trapped inside the ancient deity of Helviti, Isa, who uses her body as her own personal vessel as she retakes the nineth realm of hell.