With war on the horizon, Nina Aralias, a Denard, finds herself at odds with her people, and adrift in the unstable political climate. Out for revenge, Nina is shoved into the path of a man from her past, and forced to face the mistakes of her youth. Will she choose love and the possibility of a real future, or revenge and the certainty of death? Of course, that’s if the Universe doesn’t collapse around her first …