Five years after being exiled to Illyria, Nesta turns up in a small country across the sea, with three children in tow. She's not looking for help anymore, but Cassian's lost her too many times to do so again, and this time, he has more at stake than ever before, if those three Illyrian-winged children have got anything to do with it.

Post-ACOWAR. Nesta and Cassian haven't spoken in the weeks following the war. But when Nesta has a nightmare of Cassian's death, she needs to see him.