The thriving world slowly and gradually decays, and the characters whose lives are in the midst of great change are the ones who hold the ability to change it.
Glyn, an orphan newly entered into adulthood is abducted in a whole new life of hardship, blood spill and love. She chooses to follow her abductor, Folker, willingly after he rips her from her peaceful life and drags her into his paid mission. Conflicted with murder and justice, she must ascend from brutal character defining events and come out alive, and willing to live with herself after this sensitive crossroads of her early life.
While Roswyn, the eldest princess of Crast, faces her struggles in an entirely other form. Her predictable life is stirred with the arrival of a famed witch in her home. She is convinced the witch is up to something, and she must do everything to rid her family of her malicious grips.