Starcrossed and scorned, Nyx was as normal of a princess as she could be, until every lie her parents ever told comes to light, and she's thrust into a life on the run, full of secrecy, betrayal, and murder. With her first love pitted against her, and the stranger she's betrothed to as her only beacon of light in an otherwise darkening world, Nyx takes a journey that will lead to so much more than just self-discovery, and when the biggest secret is finally exposed, Nyx will finally be set free from a pang of guilt that never was hers to feel in the first place.

"Watching him, Myra realized there was never any way to know the difference between gods and monsters, but perhaps the truth was that there really was no difference at all-" Eons ago, when the world was just beginning-when there were only the gods and the endless stars-before there were even beings to worship the vast expanse of the universe, or the gods who created it, the Fates weaved together tragedies with their shimmering threads. The futures they spun were dark, tormented, dreadful, and yet, beautiful in their own right. The Fates knew of the darkness in the old gods' hearts, that their thirst for power would lead the world they were bound to create into eternal chaos-but perhaps that world, the realms, the universe could be saved by the hands of the Fates. So they created a curse, starting with the unborn son of Kronos. And eons later the reincarnations of these gods, of their offspring, would find themselves at the threshold of the ending-the ending of the Fates' curse, the ending of a nightmare they struggled for en eternity to escape. But no one would have guessed that the fate of the world, of the gods, of the very soul of the universe, would lie in the hands of a mortal girl-too young to be so haunted by the ghosts of a past that did not truly belong to her. Marx knows it's a dangerous game to dance on the edge of disaster and hope for anything good to be birthed from it, but he's out of chances, and he's tired. If anyone holds the key to the gods' salvation, to his own salvation, it is Emberlin Fernsby, who looks at him like perhaps he is not the monster everyone says he is, but instead the god he was born to be.

In a post-apocalyptic world still struggling to move forward and out of the shadows cast from the terrible war that left life as it once was ruined beyond complete repair, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to save what remains of their world (and possibly each other) from the dark desires of the gods and monsters hiding in plain sight.