Since she was a child, Sayr Rieve has been forced to keep her unnatural abilities a secret from the rest of the kingdom. As a girl who possesses gifts far beyond the natural elements, Sayr offers her unique abilities up to the Eastern Queen in return for protection and a life within the palace. That is, until the Western king comes looking for troops and instead finds Sayr.

Sayr is given an impossible mission that will destroy the Western Court and change the lives of everyone on the continent. But when she begins to unravel her own kingdom's bloody history, Sayr must choose which Court to destroy and which to save... and try her hardest not to destroy herself in the process.