Rillie Salach needs out. Out of her shackle of a town, out of the home that no longer welcomes her, out of the courtship from the boy that bores her. When the leader of the neighboring city’s strange people makes her an offer, she finds she has very few reasons to say no.

All Garrin wants is to continue his glorious life of partying. But when his father falls deathly ill, he has no choice but to leave it behind him, take up the mantle, and work to figure out why everything keeps falling apart around him.

Then there’s Korvath. The dangerous prince who delights in cruelty and death, who will do anything to please his King–determined to fight for the life he knows he deserves.