Ashla was always hated and feared, although she was princess of the The Dragon legion, the strongest of the Three grand clans she was also a
Ra'Dum, a child born broken, without a proper soul. To avoid the public and the pain of the anger the people have because of her she would go out for weeks at a time hunting Flatbacks, the descendants of the ancient dragons who have slowly become less powerful without the power of Oblion, the last true dragon. Soon she ran out of Flatbacks, as the wilds around Nelesa had be hunted dry, so one day she chooses to ride farther, accidentally traveling into the Sprawl, land owned by the Black Reach, one of the legions allies, but the peace was shaky, and a legionary riding on their land is something black reach would not respect.
An infant is found to be the only survivor of a human village just outside of the elven forest. The elves come to investigate not wanting the dead bodies to cause problems. They find the infant with her dead mother surrounded by dead invaders. There is no identity, no way to find relatives, and no way of even knowing if the father of the baby survived elsewhere.
The elves try to find a human home for the infant and fail. The general of the elven army and his wife the high priestess of their goddess take the child in and teach her of the ways of the elves. Yet all good things must come to an end, at eighteen years of age, far younger than the elven youth trained by the girl's adoptive father she is told that there is no more that they can teach her and she must now leave and make her way in the human world.
Now she must embark on living in the human world that she never knew leaving behind the only life, the only people she's ever known.
Just what is Jessa going to do now and how is she going to fit into this world, when she never fit into the world she's leaving behind?