In a war-torn Empire, where dragons gather in the sky to gorge off human emotions, Fangying has led a sequestered life, so that her stutter and limp do not bring shame upon her family. Now she must marry a man she has never met so that her father doesn’t get sent to war. It is her desperate hope to hide her condition from her new husband for at least their wedding night. But when her husband unexpectedly steals her away to the battlefront, can she step out of the shadows and learn she is stronger than anyone ever dreamed?