Years ago he had comrades in arms and a cause to believe in, but now the man who calls himself Nomad knows only a life on the run. Forced to hop from world to world in the Cosmere whenever the Night Brigade gets too close, Nomad lands on a new planet and is caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels who want only to escape being turned into mindless slaves, all under the constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones.