Of all the punishments to give, this has to be the most humiliating. Stripped of his title, kicked out of his apartment, and without a cent to his name, Elish Dekker is now homeless. The former Heir of Skyfall and most of his brothers are being forced by King Silas to make their own way, and they won’t be allowed back until they’ve proven that they appreciate everything Silas has done for them. But something is off about Silas’s explanation over how the Crown became bankrupt, and the fact that Silas kept Elish in the dark over Skyfall’s dire financial state, and now refuses to speak to him, hurts Elish more than he cares to admit. The man that Elish wants to one day marry won’t speak to him, yet Sanguine is free to slither around Silas’s apartment like the snake he is. However, Elish is about to have bigger issues, because a series of unfortunate events is going to have him showing up beaten and starved on the doorstep of a certain former greywaster that has already caused the ex-prince an abundance of problems. And while Elish is both recovering and trying to keep his sanity around this new hyperactive roommate, Sanguine is on the warpath. Now confident of the skeletons inside of Silas' closet and still hellbent on punishing the king for Valen’s death, Sanguine is determined to make life miserable for Silas as much as he can. Unfortunately, life is already miserable for Silas, who is deep in one of his depressive episodes. Silas rarely gets out of bed and with most of the family homeless or struggling to deal with a new wave of hostility in Skyfall, the once mighty king has been left to wallow. But Silas will not be wallowing alone, although he’s going to wish he was. With Sanguine’s own caustic resentment destroying him from the inside out, Sanguine is beginning to let his most depraved desires take hold. Determined to break Silas and expose his lies to the family, Sanguine is going to cross lines never before crossed and feed well the demon alter who only wants to see the world burn.