Keeping her friends alive in an undead blighted land is hard enough for Riony. Keeping them safe from Kess' relentless pursuit will break her. Riony and her friends struggle to carve out an existence on the run, but survival alone is a constant battle while enemies remain on their heels. When they try to help others in need it puts a target on their backs. And everyone could be a threat if they knew the truth about the unicorn/dragon hybrid. Kess' obsession with capturing the unidragon becomes all-consuming as memories of her past torment her, driving her to take desperate measures. When a dragonrider joins her quest to capture Dracuni, he becomes a risk to everybody around him. In a chilling contest between hunter and hunted, can Riony and Kess escape their collision course towards mutual destruction?