Wren Avery counts the days until she can finally raid The Blues' Compound with the rest of her Ring. She trained hard and superseded most of her fellow recruits, and it's finally time to make her mark.
That is, until she succeeds in infiltrating enemy lines, and her accomplishment turns bittersweet as she is forced to work with Jaxon Caddel to keep herself alive and retrieve as much information as possible before they're both discovered.
She thinks he's just another high-ranking Cadet, who got just as lucky as she did.
What happens when they return home to find identities revealed, life-altering secrets recovered, and the two can't decide between loving each other, hating each other, and the goals they've been working towards their whole lives?
Hecate, goddess of the moon and dark magic, wants a new body and eight-summer-old savant Liandra Kergatha has the one she covets. Torn from her mother's arms, the young girl is spirited away to another world to undergo the ritual of succorunding--the creation of an avatar. Before the procedure can be completed, the temple is attacked and Liandra escapes into the city with the bindings half completed and her name and memories of her former life wiped clean.
Possessing great natural skill and many hidden powers, the young girl becomes known as Wren and perseveres on her own. A decade later Wren is one of the greatest master thieves in Corwin. Unfortunately for Wren after her ordeal as a child, lost is not forgotten. Following a bloody encounter with an avatar, Hecate's baneful attention is drawn to her once again.
What started with a kidnapping becomes a conflict that escalates into a war involving powerful immortals, wizards, and otherworldly creatures as Wren seeks help and wins favor with the legendary clan of the Felspars.
To survive the ordeal stretched in front of her, Wren must learn her origins, befriend amazing allies, and tap into the secret powers of her birthright. Even as she rises to the challenge, she discovers Hecate isn't the only foe gunning for her...