Prologue

Sometimes at night, if she listens carefully, Aleyna can hear the clock ticking and the flutter of wings that were once mighty and grand. When a strange man and a wild woman encourage her to practice her control over the elements, Aleyna's power grows into something beyond her imagination...power that can either raise an empire...or destroy one. Painfully, Aleyna slowly uncovers secrets about her past that torment her her at night and threaten everyone and everything around her.