In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia's life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight, but she does not. She knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to a prince she has never met in order to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom. On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, intrigued when two mysterious...

With war on the horizon, Princess Lia has no choice but to assume her role as First Daughter, and finds herself at cross-purposes with her love, Rafe, and suspicious of Kaden, who has hunted her down.