With Troy in ruins, the Herdsmen of Ida are no longer bound to the citadel or the Trojans who accused them of treachery.
Hero, more than any, is unforgiving of the people who slew her father. And yet it is she to whom the gods send a vision that ties the fate of the Herdsman to the survivors of Troy.
Ever pious, Hero puts aside her anger for the will of the god, and persuades the Herdsman of Ida to aid their old allies as they seek a new homeland. Leading the Trojans on this quest is Aeneas, a prince of Tory, whose conviction that he is the son of a goddess has dangerous consequences, compounding the perils of the journey with the whims of a self-declared king.
As empires fall and are founded anew, the Herdsmen join the refugees of Troy in search of a vague destiny promised by fickle gods. Amid disaster, monsters, heresy and war, they risk not only their lives, but their hearts, to twist the treacherous threads of fate and deny the desperate demands of blood.
