“Remember whose daughter you are.”

Those words should bring Zoe comfort, but they lose their meaning the longer she remains a captive. After a forced second Blessing ceremony exposes her deepest secret, Zoe is taken, and she wakes to a nightmare. Abandoned by the men and Goddess sworn to protect her, she becomes a pawn in a political agenda she never asked to be a part of.

Beneath the orderly surface of Kestia, corruption runs deep. The government is compromised, the church is rotting from the head down, and the realm’s most revered designation is being used as bargaining chips and considered little more than property.

Zoe is burdened with the truth and knows she cannot save the realm alone, but how can she rally the allies she needs when she is forced to her knees at the mercy of a demagogue?