When a strange orphan girl is taken in by the king of Lutenia, nobody was prepared for the bloodshed and insanity that she would bring with her. All of Lutenia falls into an icy prison as powers start to shift. Anai, the orphaned girl, now grown-up is trapped in the heart of it all. Soon to be the heir's wife, she is an easy target to prey on by everyone and to use for their own gain, as a puppet with her strings forever pulled. But what happens when the power is placed into the wrong hands? What happens if that power is divided? A black bird watches the future queen with amusement, extinct is just a word, deceit's around every corner, the snow never stops falling, and immortals hide among mortals. Death puts every name on her list, her claws digging deep. Yet she has been betrayed by her own hand. With fake pleasantries and lying hearts, Vlarion's people wonder what is to become of them in the darkening days where shape shifters roam free and where war and murder can happen at any second. Villages and towns are devastated, people are killed, and shape shifters move closer to the capital city, Alua. As the king figures out what will happen to his reign and his son stepping up to take the throne, a girl sits by a window and plots her revenge, waiting for the day when the world will shatter like ice. Never did she wonder, and stop to accept that that world might be hers.