A sixteen year old assassin goes to kill a prince, but when she fails she is sentenced to a public execution. She is saved by the man she tried to kill, the prince. She is to work as a maid in his palace and the prince slowly falls in love with her. His form of love was sick and twisted and she knew nothing of love. This new life was cruel and with the prince as the only one on her side it was going to be hard just trying to fit in with the other people that worked there. Will she accept this cruel fate or will she escape from the horrible palace and return back to her clan of assasins?