After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces are seen emerging an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead. It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them.