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From the deepest snow drifts of the north to the glaring sun of the desert, from the depths of the ocean to the heights of the open sky there was an unease. It lived in every child, in every sighing tree and every twinkling star. This discontent swilled around one young woman, a woman with nothing but a calling. To deliver the shield and the sun, to raise up her who would bring peace.

The time comes for Katherine of the mountain to wed, she and her companion Lily must travel across the twelve kingdoms to meet her husband whom she has never met. She witnesses, rage, magic, madness, war, poverty and becomes changed forever.