No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
Especially when you can’t be certain which side is your enemy. Nalyn Ila did her best to lay plans for every imaginable contingency. But some contingencies were not imaginable. Now Ila has no choice but to change her plans as fast as she can, trying to stay one step ahead of disaster. Without Syova’s help, everything she has tried to achieve will certainly fail. Now that everyone’s secret plans have been revealed, Syova has no choice but to reassess everything he knows about his enemies-and his friends. The Ubezhishche people haven’t yet gone to war with Elysium … not quite. Now devastating war may be unavoidable. Unless Captain Ila is telling him the truth. With the survival of both his own people and hers at stake, Syova had better make all the right choices.