When the ruthless RAC enforcers storm the palace, they leave nothing but ash and blood... except for a trembling child who watches her world shatter. Bea, the only survivor of the nation's beloved rulers, escapes with a scarred heart and a secret that could ignite a rebellion. On the run and hunted by the very shadows that stole her family, she must decide whether to hide in the ruins of the past or rise as the spark that topples a tyrannical regime