Winter is coming, and Lyra Stark, adopted daughter of Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, travels to King's Landing with her father and her sisters. It is a city of deceit, lies and corruption, a place so far from her home of honour and duty. Her family is everything to her, but they are in danger, and it is her duty to protect them. She must not fail them.
Meanwhile, Tyrion, son of Tywin, of House Lannister, makes his way to the Wall with Jon Snow, Lyra's bastard brother (although not really, but we'll get to that later). His path is caught up with Lyra's, but it is a long road, dark, weary (and full of terrors).
When you play the game of thrones, you win, or you die.
Winter is coming and the whole of House Stark knows it, but none know it as the eldest Stark daughter does. Lyon Stark belongs in the north as much as the snow itself does, yet she herself is not as northern as her family may think. Only Catelyn and Eddard Stark know the truth about their golden haired daughter and of the blood she does not share with the Warden of the North.
When Lyon's father, Lord Eddard Stark, is named the new Hand of the King, Lyon and her sisters must follow their father into the claws of the lion's domain. Lyon must play the game of thrones, and she must learn to win if she wishes for her family to live.