Talise Balruth wanted nothing more in her life than to be left alone, but after killing a man that attacked her, she found herself as the unwilling leader of The Crows, a notorious group of bandits. Resigned to her fate, she becomes a woman wanted by both kingdoms, Clarines and Tanbarun. An unfortunate event adds another target to her back, an ex-assassin from her past, sent to bring her in to his Master, by any means necessary.

Is it a sin to find beauty in the darkness? To look beyond the appearance of people, of things, and simply fall in love with what lies beyond the surface? To feel the heartbeat of the earth under your feet? To have the wind whisper to you the songs of life as it grazes your face? Is it a sin to let your heart guide your path and your soul to guide your mind? To let the strings of fate blindly entangle your life with that of another? If it is a sin, may I never be holy again.