In the Realm of Divinia, there are two kingdoms- that of the faeries, the Sallow Kingdom, and that of the vampires- the Nightingale Dominion. Faeries and vampires have been at war since the beginning of time, and hostility continues to run rampant between the two nations. When Dorian Nightingale, the vampire crown prince, is accused of killing a member of the Sallow royal family, war is imminent. He's forced to accept the help of his mortal enemy, faerie heiress Ainsley Sallow, to prove his innocence and prevent the total damnation of both their worlds.

Annalise Merryweather's life was no fairytale. In fact, it had dealt her several crushing blows in quick succession: a cheating fiancé who left her with mountains of debt, a former best friend who had stabbed her in the back, an apartment her landlord was going to kick her out of, and a job that was about to make a round of layoffs. With her life falling apart, she decides that a hike may do her some good. She spends hours in nature, hoping it will center her. And when she turns to return to the familiar path back to her camping grounds, she finds that she is completely and utterly lost. And the sole witness to a murder. Prince Marcellus Gaius Hanover and his two siblings had planned their father's assassination to a frighteningly detailed degree; the remote location of his mother's burial ground, the stronger wine to lower his guard, the poison in the wine to weaken him, the cursed blade that was impervious to his magic, and the dead Vampire they planned to blame it on. What they didn't expect was a female who would witness their high treason. And not just any female: a human. The kind that hasn't been seen in all of Soltarius in millennia. The solution was easy: kill her before she could alert anyone. But when his brother raised his blade to dispatch her, his body moved to deflect it, his magic binding her under his protection before he could stop it. They do not talk about what this means; they only know that they must conceal this female before she rains down hell upon them all. With a war raging, stability among their ranks crumbling, and his coronation as the new King incumbent, the last thing they need is for their myriad enemies to find out that the goddesses had mated the King of the Wysterian Fae to a lowly mortal.

In seventeen years, no one has dared to approach it. Isis had been very clear. Do not come near or you will likely know the fate of your predecessors. Thus, in seventeen years, no one has dared to make a move. But rules are made to be broken, right? At least that's what Pearl, the daughter of the last person that attempted to reach the Rose Island herself, and her friends think. This may be a quest of dreadful and risky adventures for her friends but for Pearl, it's about more than that. Will she find answers about her mother, especially as to why she abandoned her when she was only an infant to attempt joining the island? This is personal to her, but everything quickly gets complicated when they have no choice but to make this trip with their enemy.