Before Thea was born her mother captured a Suriel, desperate to know why the babe in her belly felt unnervingly strange. After learning that the babe was cursed born, the High Lord of the Spring court and his mate travelled to Hybern seeking out their friend, the King. Thea was given to the King in hopes that somewhere in his books of spells he could find a way to remove the magic that cursed their daughter, and then be returned back to them. Over 500 years later, after her family was killed by the Night Court and the King who went against his promise by torturing and experimenting on her is dead, she escapes. Fulled by a lust for revenge on the Night Court and the younger brother in the Spring Court, who never came for her after their parents were murdered. She will not go down easily, not after spending the last five centuries planning, listening and learning.