Sleeping Beauty meets Romeo & Juliet in this dark fairytale retelling… All Morwenna wants is to be left alone, somewhere far away from anyone she could hurt with the uncontrollable magic coursing through her veins. But as Queen of Moraveil and Head of the House of Achlys, even a secluded cottage at the heart of the Lyswood isn’t far enough away to keep news of her rival House from reaching her. The House of Achlys and the House of Mihr have been at war for millenia, but more and more skirmishes have been breaking out along their shared border, and children have been going missing from Moraveil’s border villages. And then Morwenna begins to dream of a winged, black flame-wielding commander, brought to the brink of death when their enemies invade. When her dreams come to pass, Morwenna saves the commander’s life, but Fainrhyr is anything but grateful. He resents Morwenna for hiding away in the Lyswood while Moraveil suffers. The day when his wounds are healed and he can go back to guarding the border can’t come soon enough, and yet… when that day comes, he can’t bring himself to leave Morwenna with no one to guard her back while she searches for a way to protect her people. It’s his duty as a sentinel of Moraveil to protect the queen, after all, and he’d be squandering his duty if he let her walk into danger alone. It’s only a matter of time before the House of Mihr invades again, and every piece of information Morwenna and Fainrhyr learn about their enemy is more disturbing than the last. Between her growing fear that Fainrhyr’s involvement will get him killed, her tenuous control over her power, and the barrage of heartbreaking secrets she must learn about her past, Morwenna’s not sure she’ll be ready to do what it takes to save everything she holds dear…