In the city of Sal, power is bought with betrayal and silence is mistaken for wisdom. When four men enter the legendary House of the Blind in search of the Gray Ruby-a relic said to grant sight beyond sight-they lose their vision and begin a journey that will strip them of far more than their eyes.

Inside the House, seven rooms test loyalty, love, patience, and sacrifice. Each truth revealed demands a price: one man chooses eternal beauty and vanishes, another is condemned to imprisonment, and those who emerge carry power they may not be worthy to wield. Outside the House, Sal decays-kings are poisoned, alliances rot, and wolves give way to hyenas as ambition devours the city from within.

As war approaches and an invading army closes in, James, bearer of the Gray Ruby, must decide whether power exists to rule or to protect-and whether love can survive truth. For in a world where seeing means losing, the greatest wisdom may lie not in what is gained, but in what one is willing to sacrifice.