Cuando el Imperio de Hwet se alzó también lo hicieron las personas mejoradas, los Psychos. Impredecibles y letales. Scarlet Hunter es la criminal más joven de la Lista de los Asesinos, con una orden de búsqueda del mismo Gran Emperador, y es una Psycho, de las más poderosas. Tras años seis años de huidas, su última oportunidad es grupo de rebeldes capaces de detener la oscuridad que crece en el Imperio, con la posibilidad de haber encontrado aquello con lo que soñó, una familia. Ella es una asesina, y por sus venas corre el fuego de miles, y ahora tiene la posibilidad de averiguar que se esconde tras el gran incendio que la condenó como criminal.

Melissa Crawford thinks she's just a regular teenage girl. She goes to school. She has friends, boy problems, homework...you know, the typical teenage angst. But she couldn't be more wrong, for Melissa Crawford is not a mortal. Her adoptive mortal mother refused to give her up and hired a witch to erase the enchanting Faery child's memory, not realizing that things aren't that simple. You see, when she was a little girl, Melissa promised herself forever to her Leannan Sidhe (mate), a Fae Prince, and a promise to Fae is sacred. When the Fae Prince comes back to claim what's his, nothing will get in his way. "Mortals are so arrogant. So utterly narcissistic to think that they are the only intelligence in this world, to believe their realm is the only realm, their way is the only way. "Many of you believe us fairies only exist in little kids' fairy tales. We are so much more than that. We exist, living in the Realm just a blink away from yours. A few wrong turns in the park or the forest and you're there. We sometimes walk among you, and you're not even aware of it. Believe me, we exist. Across the globe, your kind calls us and our realm by different names...but as William Shakespeare once said- a rose by any other name..."