"Two will love you. One will bring you ruin and death, the other, life and salvation. Who you choose will change the destiny of our entire world."
When a plague breaks out and the barriers of the United Alliance are destroyed, Valaria Black Blood, heiress to the Blood Regency of Life, must leave her city, her home, and go into The After, a world of chaos and death. With the help of the most unlikely of allies, she must save her people, her cities, and a way of life that she's no longer sure she believes in.
Katariina thought she had no place in the world until she was saved from a place that had held her captive her whole life. She was given a fresh start with people that she might even be able to call family one day. She thought that being far away from the place she called home for nearly sixteen years would change everything for the better. But what happens when you have got no place else to run to. The past starts to catch up with everyone eventually.