In the secluded empire of Lyssa lives 19 year old Rumeris. She is strong, beautiful, and confident and of marriageable age. Meri is scared and excited by the possibility that soon she will be claimed as a wife through the traditional Grabbing. Will Meri manage to get along with the boy who chooses her? And will she ever make it out of the land ruled by madness where she has lived all her life?