Kitsa has worked in her family's inn for her whole life, and is perfectly content to work at the front desk and swim in the river with her best friend Aster. That is, until a stranger comes to the inn with suspicions that Aster is the real king the country needs. Long kept secrets come out, and arrows fly in this story of friendship and rivalries.
Mags has always considered herself a bad person--she's a thief with a dangerous past--but when Princess Adela makes her her personal guard that looks to be changing. Then Adela is kidnapped and Mags makes it her personal mission to get her back.