Every morning Ivy Munin wakes up and has no idea who or where she is. She relies on a crumpled piece of paper to remind her of everything about herself every time she wakes up from sleeping. Her parents were forced to suffer for disobeying King Tynan. They stood by as he poisoned Ivy as a baby. She fought back and survived. The king killed her parents when he hears she survived his deadliest poison. He not only took away her family, he took away her memories and any hope of her having a normal life. One morning she wakes up in a dungeon; one infested with rats and one that smells like vomit. She reads the card in her hand. It tells her that the king really is going to kill her this time.