"I ready my finger on the trigger and pull. The shot sends shock waves through my body and I am slammed against the doors. His head slowly falls back on the chair. It is at this precise moment that everything inside of me breaks. All I can think of is my first kill. All I can think of is the guilt. The sharp pierce of the bullet landing crisply on his cold frail neck. My head pounds and the sound of silence throbs and screams inside my ears. It digs its hands violently into my head and shreds apart my senses. It destructs my mind, bit by bit, pulling apart every thought and every memory. Thousands of images flash through my mind. My mother, my father, Teddy, Jude. My conscience slowly falls into a hubbub of bright, white thoughts. I can't breathe. I can't remember. I can't think. I love you." Mara and Jude are living in a broken society, both fighting with their lives to put back the pieces of their world. A crime, an act of rebellion, has been committed in the government capital and authorities have scanned the eye print from cameras recording in the location of the crime. But when they do so, two people make an appearance. Mara and Jude. Brought together by the most unexpected of circumstances, the two help fight the broken and breaking civilization together. But through all of this we still don't know... Who really committed the crime?

Long ago stood the kingdom of Requiem, a land of men who could grow wings and scales, breathe fire, and take flight as dragons. Requiem ruled the sky. But Dies Irae, a tyrant leading an army of griffins, hunted Requiem's people, burned their forests, and shattered their temples. Requiem fell. This ancient land now lies in ruin, its halls crumbled, its cries silenced, its skeletons littering the burned earth. In the wilderness, a scattering of survivors lives in hiding. The griffins still hunt them, and every day promises death. Will Requiem's last children perish in exile... or once more become dragons and fly to war?

Matty has seen faeries since she was eight because of scars on the right side of her face that disfigure her. She's learn to deal with giants walking in the forests behind her boarding school, random pixies pulling pranks on other students, but when a faerie court decided to get into her life, things will get a hell of alot more crazy?