Agnes de La Noue grew up in a cruel kingdom. She keeps hearing a story about how the kingdom was built, but she has a feeling that everything is wrong. When she finds out that her parents arranged a marriage for her to her best friend, she knows she can't marry him. Agnes runs away, making her a criminal in many ways and in the kingdom she lived in any crime is punishable by death. As she runs from her troubles, she finds herself in enemy territory. Is all the stories that she heard of about this kingdom true or has she been decieved along with the rest of the kingdom? As Agnes finds out the truth about the Kingdoms, she also discovers the truth about herself. She finds out that the 'disease' she thought she had was actually a great gift of power. She learns how to use this power against her enemies.