Dahlia D'Alessandro has never been normal, not since she was taken from her home country of Ravka and sold into the pleasure houses in Ketterdam. Not since she peddeled her way out of the House of Blue Iris with the help of notorious Kaz Brekker. Not since she found out she's a grisha heartreader. Dahlia is determined to tear down the system, The pleasures houses, the merchants who fill there coffers, and the stadwatch that do nothing about it. She wants them all gone. She wants to stop the stream of girls and boys who are taken advantage of and mistreated, who are forcibly taken from there homes. But when Kaz and his crew knock on her door with the opportunity to put Dahlia's plans into place, but requires finding passage through the dark fold and stealing her home country's prize grisha, the sun summoner, Dahlia must chose between her dreams of tearing down the system and her longing to see the little palace and what it entails. Soon, Dahlia finds herself surrounded by snakes on all sides. Will she be able to achieve her mission and make it back home to the fangs, the gang of girls she now feels responsible for? Or will she fall prey to a pair of rather dazzling stormy grey eyes?
4 parts