The Empire of Illyk was never safe… …especially not for Iona Wylde. Living in the corrupt city of Porir, working for meager earnings at the run-down zoo, and paying a monthly tithe to the humans? It was supposed to keep the reality of what she was hidden. A Fae. An Elemental. The last of her kind. But the day the emperor’s soldiers invade her home is the day her careful life falls apart. Prepared to flee to safety, Iona never expects to encounter the Resistance, and the fire dancer in their midst. To preserve the Fae race and stop the emperor from destroying them completely, they’ll need Iona. And to survive, she’ll need them too. On their search for the truth, they’re lead across Illyk and to The West Isles, the lands of mercenaries and pirates. There, secrets of the empire will begin to unravel. Bonds will be formed. Betrayals will tear the Resistance apart, making Iona question everything she ever knew. And it just might spark a war for freedom that will change her fate forever.