A broken warrior steals what the steppes were never meant to give. Out of that theft, an empire is born. So is the curse that will travel through every era of this world.

A reluctant prince watches his father killed in his own throne room. Exile carries him from London to Africa to the frontier of Arunachal. What he becomes there is not entirely human.

A soldier broken by the Great War kills the wrong elephant. The grief that follows is not his own. It belongs to a herd. And it knows where to find him.

A young man in Atagaon dreams of lives he has never lived. He thinks they are nightmares. They are something else. Arunachal is calling him home, and home is older than he knows.