The illegitimate son of King Henry, Prince Sanglant, has been considered dead since the day the city of Ghent fell to the onslaught of the wild tribes of Eick. But the prince cannot die - the blood of his mother, the blood of the elves, which kept Sanglant all these years, has now become his curse. He is a prisoner of the leader of the people of Eik, the sorcerer Bloody Heart, and only the memory of Liat helps him in a desperate fight against the approaching madness...

Liat, trying to hide the secrets of her past, is forced to avoid the traps that her treacherous father Hugh sets for her , but even service at the king’s court does little to protect her from the advances of an insidious sorcerer.