Margot was born a half-breed in a world where such creatures have no place. She is an orphan with the stigma of a slave. Someone brutally killed her teachers, and now her named brothers are in mortal danger. But how to protect everyone at once, when protection itself would not hurt her?.. After all, Margot learns that her lover, whom she has been looking for for many years, is a traitor, a killer who destroyed her life...