In the north, silence can be a warning. Fire can be a reckoning.

Walden stands on the edge of war. Harnet's forces creep ever closer, bringing chaos in their wake. The land itself is restless?storms carve destruction across the wilderness, and the forests are dry, ready to burn. As tensions rise, so does the heat, and soon, it won't just be the trees that catch fire.

Marissa never expected to lead, but with Walden's future hanging by a thread, she has no choice. She isn't a soldier. She isn't a Ranger. But she understands one truth?if they stand divided, they will fall.

While Walden fights to hold its ground, Derek and his Rangers move like ghosts through the wilds, striking where they can, knowing they can't afford to lose. But even as the battle lines are drawn, the greater threat isn't just the enemy at their gates. It's the choices they'll have to make when the silence breaks and the fire comes.

Because war doesn't wait. And when the flames rise, you either stand... or you burn.