Love is a sacrifice on the altar of power.

After Kejari, everything that Oraya once believed to be true was destroyed. A prisoner in her own kingdom, mourning the only family she ever had, and reeling from a grave betrayal, she no longer even knows the truth about her own blood. She has only one certainty left: she cannot trust anyone, least of all Raine.

The House of Night is also surrounded by enemies. The nobles of Rhyne are not very willing to accept a Converted King, especially one who was once a slave. And the House of Blood sinks its claws into the kingdom, threatening to tear it apart from the inside.

When Ryne proposes a secret alliance to Oriah, her agreement is the only chance to reclaim her kingdom and take revenge on the lover who betrayed her. But to do so, she will have to harness a destructive, ancient power intertwined with her father's greatest secrets.

But as enemies close in on all sides, plans change. Unraveling her past and facing her future, Oraya is forced to choose between the bloody reality of seizing power and the destructive love that could be her undoing.