What does it really mean to be consumed by hatred? What does hatred become, if left to simmer too long? Born into the dregs of society and with a background drenched in the blood of her loved ones, fugitive and illusionist Corinne Loucair seeks vengeance against the powers at be in the colossal city of Port Creave-the King's Seat. With a reluctant ally bound by oath to support his new, powerful representative, Corinne claws her way up through the ranks and right into the King's Court. But what happens if the men and women in the King's Court are not the monsters she envisioned?

Paul is twelve years old when slavers raid their small, mountain village, killing everyone except women and children. He is brought across the ocean, to Kahlain, the capital city of the slaver nation, and sold on the open market to the performers guild. As a slave in the performers guild Paul learns acrobatics, tightrope walking, knife-throwing, and slight-of-hand magic tricks. His natural talent, his speed at learning new skills, and his ability to earn the trust of others allows him more freedoms than most slaves. As the guild gradually becomes his new family, and as he begins to find happiness again despite being a slave, his relationship with Hannah, the performers guild leaders daughter, begins to blossom into something more. Then, when he is fourteen years old, the leader catches him kissing Hannah. It is completely forbidden for slaves to fall in love with a free person, and it brings the utmost shame of the nation down on the family of the free person. The leader of the performers guild feels betrayed by both his daughter, and Paul, who he had begun to view as something like a son. In his mindless rage he kills Hanna. He blames Paul for her death, and for the resulting unbearable shame, and orders Paul whipped to death. Paul is publicly whipped to the edge of death, but he escapes and goes into hiding deep in the city. In the months of healing and hiding, his grief for Hannah and all that the slavers have taken from him turns into steel-hard hatred. He sneaks back to the performers guild and swears a blood vow before the other performer slaves. A blood vow of ultimate vengeance. This blood vow begins to change him. It begins to carve away at his humanity, yet Paul does not care. He will kill all slavers, or die trying.

Rahvin and Kiera are in the Other. The shadowy, inverted realm, tied to Rahvins past, and home of the Shadowfall he carries. They must return that dark energy to its rightful place, but there are those who want that power for their own. And there is the Council there, with secrets about both realms. And secrets about Rahvin that he must discover, lest they consume him.

I had to leave the city. Immediately. Genevieve would stop at nothing to capture me, and as much as being hunted by a beautiful, red-haired, teenage sorceress sounded fun, I knew better. Little did I know that my journey would take me to face my own past, my own powers, and face to face with a world-crossing creature who would set me on a path that might destroy my friends and all I held dear.

Fifteen year old Callin escapes from an underground lab where telepaths and genetic scientists have been experimenting on him. On the run from the enhanced assassins the Lab sends after him, he meets others his age who have escaped other labs. Callin vows to go back and destroy the labs, but then he meets Carmen. Beautiful, cursed with an uncontrollable power that links her to anyone she touches, she inadvertently discovers she can control her power when touching Callin. They are attracted to each other on a level they hardly understand, but Callin cannot let down his inner walls that protect him from the hated telepaths, but also shield him from love. Callin battles the Labs and his own heart in this science fiction fantasy.