When runaway slave Vaya escapes her life of imprisonment, she quickly finds herself captured again in the bleak, icy land of Dalrin. Vaya develops a strong relationship with her captors after she is able to kill initial suspicions that she is a spy. When trouble comes knocking at Dalrin's front gates, it is Vaya's mysterious relationship to the magic tree in the courtyard that becomes paramount to Dalrin's defense. Can Vaya prove to be the key piece in Dalrin's survival? In a world of changing loyalties, prophecies spoken by an oracle, and a contemptuous enemy from the faraway land of Venistar, the Kingdom of Dalrin must do all it can to defend its walls and figure who can be trusted.