The time has come for the next Gathering. Every ten years, girls that are suspected to have an otherworldly power join the generation bred in the Court to fight into a ranking of strength, ruthlessness and power. Cecilia Olsen is fifteen years old. She's just another girl until she disappears, never to be seen again...
'Who I am is none of your concern. But if you must, call me Kallis.' Kallis is lost and forgotten. In her case, this is literal. She has lived in the lost palace her whole life, underground, in the middle of the largest forest in the Kingdom. The twelve lords control her, and she has no one to talk to now Alina's gone...