For fans of Sarah J. Maas and Brigid Kemmerer comes the first book in an enchanting trilogy about a fallen princess who gets a chance at revenge but finds herself entangled in a web of magic, hatred, and an ancient feud between good and evil.18-year-old apprentice midwife, Marielle D'Robinette, still remembers her life as the princess of Trystelle. She remembers closets filled with endless choices of silk dresses and a life of no work. Never having known the kingdom responsible for the wrongs against her and no means of taking her own country back, her life is now resigned to toil.Until luck serves her revenge on a gilded platter. All she has to do is seize it.But something else is brewing in the city. Something strange and wicked. The dead are rising at night with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. A suspicious prince from a land nobody will speak of knows more than what he is telling, and Marielle quickly realizes that her vengeance scheme will take a lot more than killing the king.