In a world where a fractured moon hangs like a broken promise, Elias Corven survives a fever that should have killed him—only to realize he isn’t who he was. Once David Hartwell, a history teacher who died saving a child, he now inhabits the body of a seventeen-year-old nobleman in a realm ruled by Lyrrae, the Goddess of Mirrors, where truth bends and dissent is heresy.

Haunted by names the temple forbids—echoes of the “Five Perturbations” sealed away as demons—Elias uncovers fragments of a suppressed past: lost gods, erased races, and a prophecy of a soul from beyond meant to break the goddess’s perfect reflection. But the High Inquisitors watch his every move, his own family fears him, and each revelation hints his arrival was no accident.

To survive, Elias must choose: obey the role forced upon him, or risk everything to uncover what the world has forgotten.