In a world governed by power and blood, Rhaenyra Targaryen has been a pawn twice over. First as the doomed heir to the Iron Throne and later as Rhae Potter, the girl raised to die for the greater good. Reborn into her first life at the age of seven, she refuses to let history repeat itself. With no intention of fighting for a throne that only promises agony, Rhaenyra plots her escape as well as her mother's. Her path crosses with an unlikely ally whilst in Essos: Prince Qoren Martell. To the world, he is a young prince in the shadow of a regent, but he is actually Baelor Targaryen reincarnated. Burdened by the memories of a past life and the guilt of a realm he once tried to save, Qoren understands the cost of Targaryen blood better than anyone. Bound by their shared pasts and a mutual disdain for the machinations of King's Landing, they enter into a marriage of passion and devotion they had never known. In a world of fire and blood, Rhaenyra and Baelor have finally chosen peace at any cost.

Alicent Hightower died as nothing more than a grieving mother. She spent her final days haunted by the screams of her children and the realization that she was merely a pawn in her father's pursuit of a throne. When she wakes in 101 AC, she is no longer that girl. Carrying the memories of her first life and the soul of Alicent Potter, the Master of Death from a world much different than the one she was familiar with, she refuses to be a martyr again. While Otto Hightower calculates which Targaryen bed will best serve his ambition, Alicent is already rewriting her fate. She rejects the crown and orchestrates a marriage to Garlan Tyrell: the heir to Highgarden. But the blood of Valyria is restless. As the decades pass, the Targaryens begin to wake from fever dreams of a future that never was. Those collective dreams turns into a dark obsession as the Targaryens become fixated on the Lady of Highgarden. At the same time, the realm fractures. Without a common enemy in the Greens, the dynasty splits from within. Team Black rallies behind Rhaenyra's claim while Team Blue gathers under the wealth and might of Laena Velaryon and her children.