Set long after The Future's Vale, Dorthy Sallace awakens in a charred forest. Around her, a neat circle of untouched plantlife. She returns home to find everything she has ever known to be destroyed by the wrath of a dragon in the Genocide of Dragons.
Now that the Age of Dragons has finished, and the dragon's State of Serpenti has been dismantled, Dorthy finds herself trying to find a home in the ruins of a lost empire. For a time, she lives in the relatively untouched Simple Swamp until she is kidnapped by a mercenary of Baron K. Valgutnar to be used for his aspirations. Dorthy never finds home to last long, and must not only survive the Mother Monstrosity, the Hunter, Undolimant Forest, and Alokaun, The Atoning Abomination, but she must try to find a place where she can feel at home: an elusive, temporaly leniant realm of perpetual autumn.
All the while, Dorthy must survive the royal and unconscious temptations and prophecies given by the Gold Cross Knight, who sees her as holding a purpose she must choose to undertake.