Talia is an assassin—and a monster; cruel beyond measure or compare, and she hates herself for it.
Yet a lifetime of cruelty and torture is not somewhat that is easily overcome, however; she intends to do just that.
A ghost from a past she thought long dead and buried re-emerges in her life, and this man she thought she’d never see again promises her hope and love and most of all a chance to redeem herself.
The two find themselves both ensnared in a complicated web of politics and intrigue, and Talia realizes all too late that her own hands helped to weave it. Pitted against the very woman who trained her in the arts of murder the pair struggle to understand and to stop a plot to usurp the crown and the murders of the entire royal family.
Desperate to find allies and beset at every turn by traitors, Talia and her lover are pursued by a life she wants to leave behind and the echoes of her past which are all too quickly catching up to her.
