She doesn't remember him. He can't forget.

Sahara Blaze wakes with no name, no past, and hands that reach for a blade before her eyes open. The boy beside her — ice-blooded, half-starved, flinching every time she moves — says they've traveled together. Says she trusted him once.

She doesn't believe a word of it.

Raelin Coldbender is carrying a lie that would destroy them both. He wiped her mind to save her life. Now he's left with a woman who fights for him like a reflex and looks at him like a stranger. The curse binding them still feeds the armies of Malakor. Every kingdom in Arthelia wants them in chains. And the only safe ground left is the volcanic filth of the Scorchlands, where the heat chokes Raelin's magic and the walls are thin enough to hear everything.

They can't stay. They can't run. The hunters are closing in from every border. And behind Sahara's eyes, something is shifting — something older than the girl Raelin loved.

Something that remembers what she can't.

For fans of Sarah J. Maas, Robin Hobb, and Joe Abercrombie.