❝ You are the reason I'm here, the reason it all hurts. Not with my clan. Not with my family or my friends-❞ ❝Ta'kari... ❝So why are you the only one that can ease my suffering? The only one that can take my pain away?❞ Ta'kari and Aonung have been promised since birth, a betrothal made to forge a bond between the Ta'unui clan and the Metkayina. Yet since their first meeting five years ago, they've disliked each other. She finds him cowardly and bullying and rude, and he finds her irritatingly bossy and slightly terrifying. Yet when her clan is attacked, she is forced to seek shelter in Awa'atlu. With her new people, the ones she will one day have to lead. With Aonung.