Tired of being a puppet prince, Remy turned in the crown for a watchman's sword.Tired of being a protected princess, Marsea turned in her petticoats for an assassin's cloak.Tired of...well, just about everyone and everything in his footpath, Aiden, the best blood-mage of his graduating class, turns in his laurels for another bottle of the black.These royal nothings think they have escaped the worst, the past, only to find an even more horrific future awaits them when an ancient evil releases a blight of ghouls and darkness on their world. Can they, or anyone at all, survive?