Dazhe samyy yarkiy svet rozhdaet tmu. V lyuboy kromeshnoy tme skryvaetsya tayna. Kazhdaya tayna osleplyaet pravdoy. Gevin Gayl umiraet. On rasschityval na pyat let, no teper u nego ostalos menshe goda. Pyatdesyat tysyach bezhentsev, vnebrachnyy syn i byvshaya nevesta, kotoraya, kazhetsya, uznala samyy strashnyy sekret Prizmy - problemy okruzhayut Gevina so vseh storon. Vsya magiya mira vyshla izpod kontrolya i grozit unichtozhit Sem Satrapiy. Huzhe vsego, chto v mir vozvraschayutsya starye bogi, i poklonyayuschuyusya im armiyu magov tsveta uzhe ne ostanovit. Edinstvennyy shans na spasenie Gayla - brat, chyu svobodu i zhizn Gevin ukral shestnadtsat let nazad.