Samantha Shannon transports readers to the realm of Priory of the Orange Tree and into the lives of four women in A Day of Falling Night, illuminating the sequence of events that moulded their world for future generations. The Priory's sister is Tunuva Melim. She has trained to kill wyrms for fifty years, but none have surfaced since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is beginning to wonder what the Priory is for. Sabran the Ambitious, who reigns in the Queendom of Inys to the north, wedded the young king of Hr?th, narrowly rescuing both kingdoms from destruction. Glorian, their daughter, follows in their wake because that is where she wants to be. The eastern dragons have been dormant for ages. Dumai is spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate. When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat.