Elora Danton is destined to take over the Encanteri throne once her parents are gone. But after an attack from a group of outsiders, she realizes how much her life was spent being protected from everything, rendering her survival skills practically nonexistent. When her mother sends her with one of the Royal Guard to deliver one of the secret magical gems to the shifter race, she’s challenged with more than just the dangers of the terrain. There are her feelings for Finn, her mother’s trusted protector, as well as the frustration that her parents had never revealed any of this stuff to her. As they close in on the shifter lands, Elora finds out the lengths others will go to to get that gem and that sacrificing what she can to save a whole race might end her life.