Amalie's family settled after The Incident. Everyone but her. Resentment drove her far from home, but when she's forced to return, she finds her brother chomping at the bit- to kill her. Even after being warned to stay away, she investigates. What she finds dredges up more questions than it answers. She finds herself side by side with a traitor prince, wound up in a hidden city's bloody history, with no choice but to follow her nose and hope she doesn't end up dead.