MAERAD IS A GIRL WITH A TRAGIC and bitter past, but her powers grow stronger by the day Now she and her mentor, Cadvan; hunted by both the Light and the Dark, must unravel the Riddle of the Treesong before their fractured kingdom erupts in chaos. The quest to solve this ancient puzzle lures Maerad ever closer to the seductive Winterking— author of her sorrows and the ally of her most powerful enemy, the Nameless One. Trapped in the Winterking's icy realm, Maerad must acknowledge what she has always suspected — that she is the greatest riddle of all.