Each generation of the Serpent Witch lived a long life of solitude, keeping the balance of life with an ancient magic, and when Morgana inherited the powers after her mother’s death, she huddled alone in the Abandoned Forest with only the snakes for company. The fables said the land was cursed by the Gods, and that anyone who walked between those trees would fall dead, but Morgana wasn't afraid. She’d been cursed all her life. Anyone who could extinguish the souls of thousands with a single thought was more weapon than human. But the Gods demanded balance during the Ancient War, and she kept that balance. Aveline, an orphan soldier in the Sea King’s guard, knew little of the Ancient War. During the Split, the God of the Sea demanded a sacrifice from the lands, stealing half of the humans for his own, relocating her ancestors to the ocean floor. She knew nothing outside the watery deep until she found Morgana with news of a budding war, bringing the Serpent Witch into the water to end the conflict before it could truly begin. But witches can never escape their fate, and a betrayal tore the women apart as a wall of water invaded the land, eating away at the kingdom's border, until soon, nothing would remain but a single territory beneath the waves. Two hundred years after everything falls apart, Aveline came to Morgana to finish what they both started. Through two timelines, with a tragedy separating them in the middle, Morgana and Aveline unravel secrets and betrayals as they try to determine who the real enemy is.