She thought it was over. No more abuse, no more pain. She would have real friends, a real life. A chance at love.Emery Talis was back.Back in Feros.Back within the nightmares she had tried so hard to escape.Drowning in wine and pain, she wonders if maybe she deserves this. Deserves it for failing her friends, for abandoning her sister.But she wasn't alone. She still had her mother. She still had the Blackwoods, Cerberus, her Spymaster. Until betrayals start flooding through her kingdom, making her question where true loyalties rested.How is she expected to run an Empire, learn about her magic, heal from her past, and overcome her problems when she can't trust her own people?With something dark rising from the depths of their world, pirates, criminals, and guards alike come together to face the biggest threat of them all: One of their own.*** Trigger warning: Contains conversations of rape and pedophilism.