Last of the Wilds - Trudi Canavan - Hardcover

Age of the Five, book 2 of 3 completed series

The war between the Circlians and Pentadrians is over, but the cost has been high on both sides.

All though the architect of the White's victory, Auraya has little cause for self-congratulations; her days are spent trying to reconcile the Dreamweavers and the priesthood, while her nights are filled with nightmares. She walks in fields of blood and gore while the dead rise in accusation. You killed us. You.

It seems Auraya will know no peace while these nightmares haunt her, but the only one she trusts to help has vanished.

The Dreamweaver, Leiard, still struggling to come to terms with the ever more poweful memories of the long-dead Mirar, flees into the mountains with Emerahl, perhaps the last of the Wilds. Although not a Dreamweaver herself, Emerahl is powerfully gifted, and helps Leiard to make sense of his strange jumble of memories. What they discover will change his life forever.

And far to the south, the Pentadrians lick their wounds and set about finding a new leader. Their faith unshaken by defeat, the Pentadrians, led by a new First Voice, are still resolved to bring the truth to the heathens of the north. Peace, it seems, must wait a while yet.