To avoid spoilers and best follow the plot, this book is best read after The Seventh Cadence (The Continua Chronicles: Book 1).
 
After the battle at the Shadow Peaks, Amie and Mara Kruv are left with nothing but the scant clothes on their backs and an injured horse. Thinking that they’ve finally struck a bit of luck, the sisters run into three soldiers who agree to escort them home. But there is more to these soldiers than they realize, and they find themselves as the unwitting accomplices to three deserters of the Deseran Dominion army.