She was only a child when she tore open the veil between worlds and let death slip through. Now, fifteen years later, the girl once blamed for unleashing a monster is the kingdom's most valuable prisoner. Feared for her untamed power and kept hidden away by a king with dark ambitions, she knows nothing of her past-only that the magic inside her is dangerous... and growing. When a desperate escape leads her to Brigada, a mythical dwarven sanctuary thought lost to legend, she finds unexpected refuge-and an even more unexpected ally in a prince with secrets of his own. Slade, a warrior hiding royal blood, walks a razor-thin line between loyalty to a tyrant father and the quiet rebellion stirring beneath the surface. As war brews and the kingdom begins to crumble under the weight of a returning terror, she must face the truth about what she is, and what the creature that once destroyed everything was really after. Because death isn't done with her yet. And neither is fate.