Ilsa Barrett travels to the great plateau where she was born. To outsiders she appears to be a mercenary, come to fight in the war brewing between her home city of Dal and the city on the other side of the plateau, but they are wrong. Ilsa and her allies must outrace the onrush of war to rescue a woman who may prove the key to peace.

The mysterious monuments called the Ten Lyres have seen much bloodshed in the past, but is more inevitable?

There's nowhere to hide on the plateau.