The first mistake Connall had made was to pledge a blood oath to Maeve, the queen of Doranelle. The second, saying things to his brother he didn't mean in his last moments. Under the bind of the blood oath and Maeve's orders and stabbed himself in the chest, his twin Fenrys helplessly sobbing in pain.

It had ended. All of it. Until a flash of blinding light pulled him out of the dark. He saw sun, woods, and a woman hovering over him. Her hand covered his mouth just as he was about to scream.