Sonya was born with a rare gift: she could feel what people around her feel. This concerned not only emotions, but also physical condition. She kept her gift a secret from the Empire for a long seventeen years, until, due to a monstrous mistake, all the carriers of such a gift disappeared. Sonya was immediately captured and forced to serve as the Imperial Soothsayer. Designed to recognize potential assassins while protecting the emperor, Sonya is under constant pressure. But the girl's strength is unbowed and insane, she cannot always understand: people feel this way or she makes them feel this way. Darkness is approaching, and this place is teeming with dangerous emotions when Sonya realizes that she herself may become the worst threat to the empire. Struggling to resist her strength, the girl seeks refuge with the charming and volatile Emperor Valco and his idealistic brother Anton, the Crown Prince. But when the threat of a revolution clashing two brothers strikes, Sonya will have to decide which of the brothers to support and for whom to become a traitor...