Rift And Break

Where the rift is, the break is.
Slowly, a shadow spreads dark wings over the sun. This is an eclipse that will block out not just Ravka, but threaten the entire world.
A band of misfit renegades has finally gotten their happy ending. In the Dregs, Kaz is richer than ever; Jesper and Wylan are happily together; Inej is on her mission to make the world a better place; Nina is where she feels she can truly be accepted as a Grisha.
Malyen Oretsev has his happy ending, but unhappily, that might end too soon.
The Ravkan crown seems secure, and Nikolai Lantsov is working hard to rebuild after civil war.
But secretly, in the shadows, there is a dark flutter of wings, a sigh of breath, a scratching of fingernails on worn tabletops. The secrets that an old blind woman left behind are finally emerging; the anger of a soul kept hidden and loveless for centuries, burning through the very fabric of the universe.
If not for love, do we ever really die? Do we ever really live?
And after a civil war, what happens to the people left behind?
How will it end? In darkness? In light? In a Keramzin orphanage?
We know how it starts - when an orphan is rescued from a slaver's ship by the Wraith.