"You were sworn to protect her, yet you let her do as she pleases, regardless of the danger." "She is mine to protect, not yours. You are fallen. Darkness consumes you more every single day. She deserves more than that." "Don't you think I know that, but she changes me more every day. She has something no one else has been able to give me." "What is that?" "Hope." -- Elora Thatcher has lived on the edge her entire life. As a woman who grew up in the system with her twin sister, she's no stranger to chaos and danger. But when a creature attacks her and her sister and mysterious strangers show up at her doorstep, she is thrust into a world she never knew existed-a world where survival might be her only option.