When the palace grounds are deemed unsafe, the King sends Reyah away for her own protection, but the unthinkable happens when her group is taken captive. Forced to form an unlikely alliance with a former enemy, the pair rely on each other to get out unscathed. When tragedy strikes yet again, Reyah's world begins to spiral as she watches the life shaped to be her future, begin to crumble before her. Now the secrets she once guarded so dearly seem irrelevant, and to absolve her guilty conscious, she confides in her new confidant. Reyah knows her admission will cause a ripple through the entire Realm, but the die has been cast, and she must now face the consequences of the secrets she's been keeping.