Sigrid ruled with power, and Rowan paid the price for a marriage he never forgave her for. Left to suffer in Helheim for a hundred years, she is finally given a brutal choice when his true love returns: live on as a servant, or enter the Hall of Anguish and be trapped in endless rebirths of pain. Expecting her fear to break her, Sigrid moves ahead with a new wedding. Instead, Rowan chooses to disappear into Yggdrasil’s cycle, taking her fate into her own hands. When Sigrid realizes too late what he has done, his desperate search leads only to the ashes of the woman he lost.