Vivianne is far from a perfect princess. She has a secret, one that could get her killed by her own father if it gets out. After someone threatens to tell everyone she's forced to put off her coronation and deal with the problem before it gets out of hand.
Betrayed by her own kind, a young teenage girl finds herself at one of the kings worse death camps where she will work until she dies. But she is determined to live. One day, she gets accused of attacking one of the soldiers there and is sent through a three day punishment. But the last punish is too painful for her to save herself. Soon she is escorted the the kings palace. As part of the Assassins League, others are very wary of her. She starts to gain hope that maybe she can find her freedom, but when she meets her former betrayer, everything goes down in flames. How will she find her way to freedom with the whole palace keeping an eye on her? How will she survive the consistent beatings? And how will she stop herself from falling in love?