War has blossomed between the lands of Mehera and Arendine. Between brutal raids and wrecked trade routes, treaties, and trials, patience between the Northern and Southern territories have finally snapped. With the paid assassinations of foreign emissaries and mysterious deaths of the most powerful courtiers in both lands fueling the fires of war, any hopes of stopping putting it out are far out of reach. Cerelia Auclair, the best assassin under the training of Ciaran Zatochi, harbors a dark secret, one with the potential to save or destroy the continent. When a job gone wrong steals the life of one of her colleagues, Cerelia sets out on a fiery quest for revenge that reveals far more than what she had expected. And not even the tides of war can stop her.