Cathy and Will are actually the Duchess and Duke of Londinium, the largest Fae-touched Nether city, however they have different concepts of what their power offers. Pressured by his Fae patron, Lord Iris, Will challenges to keep up total control whilst knowing he will need to have a child along with his challenging wife. Cathy really wants to muscle the Court through two hundred years of social change and free of charge it from its old-fashioned moral strictures. But Cathy learns just how harmful it can be for a woman who dares to speak out .

Meanwhile, simply because Sam learns more about the Elemental Court, it becomes clear how the Fae are not the only risk to humanity. Sam realizes that he has to make enemies of the very most powerful people on the planet, or risk becoming the antithesis of most he thinks in.

Threatened by secret societies, hidden power networks, and Fae machinations, can easily Sam and Cathy endure long enough to make the shifts they would like to observe in the world?