Her name is Naomi Smyth. At least that's what she tells everyone. Her father demanded the name change when she fled her childhood home eleven years ago to escape The Hand of Calamity-a god of death. Since then, she's lived alone in the city of Le'Gar, a city protected by enchanted gargoyles. She has kept her identity hidden because she trusts her father, but she doesn't know why she must live a lie.

Then one night the king of Le'Gar sends his Riders into the city to capture anyone bearing the surname of a certain bloodline: Naomi's bloodline. The gargoyles know Naomi is in danger, so they urge her to flee, and she obeys.

On the run, Naomi finds herself in the presence of a self-loathing Magnificent, a golden witch, and a treasonist. Each stranger holds a clue to the hidden truths about her bloodline. Truths that could end the centuries-old war happening both in her world of Th?en and in the Outer Void where the god-like beings reside.

Naomi's world is slowly falling into the hand of the god who loves death, and soon everyone will be slaves to the darkness. But Naomi may have a power strong enough to keep her world safe and protected from that terrible fate. She must simply dare to emerge.