For ten long years, Aeress Wynter has served as the king's protector in the gilded halls of his court, her quiet loyalty and ruthlessness earning her the trust of the kingdom's most powerful men. But when a mission goes awry, she uncovers a chilling conspiracy that will warp the natural order of her world. Thrust into a dangerous web of deceit, she forms an unlikely alliance with the shadowed and brooding Midnight, shrouded in his own secrets and haunted past. The two must work together to unravel the dark truth at the heart of the kingdom and navigate the dark forces that threaten to consume them both in order to save the king. But Aeress must decide if she is willing to betray all that she knows and pay the ultimate price for losing her heart to the one man who seeks to destroy her.