On a perfectly ordinary spring day, a perfectly ordinary young soldier set out on a perfectly ordinary task: to gain a place in an as-yet-unknown, but surely ordinary, lord’s troop or household guard… It’s funny, really, how perfectly ordinary dreams turn sour. Lured into treason and only narrowly escaping the gallows, Keridwen was desperate to build some kind of life for herself. But between demons bent on death and mayhem, treachery at the very heart of the kingdom, and a prince who had every right to nurse a grudge against her, what were the odds that she could stay out of trouble for long?