The sequel to When the Heavens Fall features gritty characters, deadly magic, andmeddlesome gods. Once a year on Dragon Day the fabled Dragon Gate is raised to let a sea dragon pass into the Sabian Sea.There, it will be hunted by the Storm Lords, a fellowship of powerful water-mages who rule an empire calledthe Storm Isles. Emira Imerle Polivar is coming to the end of her tenure as leader of the Storm Lords, but she has no intentionof standing down graciously. As part of her plot to hold onto power, she instructs an order of priests known asthe Chameleons to sabotage the Dragon Gate. There's just one problem: that will require them to infiltrate animpregnable citadel that houses the gate's mechanism -- a feat that has never been accomplished before. But Imerle is not the only one intent on destroying the Storm Lord dynasty. As the Storm Lords assemble inanswer to a mysterious summons, they become the targets of assassins working for an unknown enemy. Andwhen Imerle sets her scheme in motion, that enemy uses the ensuing chaos to play its hand.