Kubera Leez loses her whole village on her sixteenth birthday, and the magician Asha Rahiro pulls her out of the ruins. The two set off across the planet Willarv, where humans, gods and the immortal suras hold an uneasy balance, Asha chasing answers of her own and Leez chasing the sura that burned her home. Her given name belongs to the god Kubera, a coincidence her village never talked about.