In the third volume of the bestselling series Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new devastation with the return of the Voidbringers, an enemy whose numbers are as great as their thirst for revenge. Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies achieved a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: the enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps across the world with destruction, awakening the once peaceful and submissive Parshmen from the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. As he desperately flees to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must confront the fact that the newly ignited anger of the Parshmen may be entirely justified. High in the mountains above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar explores the wonders of the ancient fortress of the Knights Radiant and uncovers dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrowly defined. Unless all nations of Roshar can set aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together – and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past – even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.