Witches aren't a well loved people in Kealan. Samuel Naira has been a slave for the past fifteen years. Over those years- he's heard rumors and secrets. Now he knows something about Kealan that no one wants to know. Sam needs to tell the Empress but how's a lowly witch slave supposed to do that? The answer comes in the form of his current master's youngest daughter. Now there's a price on his head for "kidnapping" Emma Gardener and fleeing from his master. Can Sam tell and convince the Empress of what he's heard before he loses his head?