Nazafareen lives for revenge. A woman from the isolated Four-Legs Clan, all she is aware of the King’s elite Water Dogs is normally that they bind wicked animals called daevas to protect the empire in the Undead. But when scouts turn up to recruit young people with the gift, she leaps at the opportunity to join their rates. To hunt the monsters that killed her sister.

Scarred by grief, she’s willing to spend any price, sometimes if it needs linking with a daeva called Darius. Individual in body, he’s possessed of a about The Midnight Ocean terrifying power, one that Nazafareen controls. But the fantastic cuffs that join them come with an unwanted side-effect. Each encounters the other’s emotions, and human being and daeva begin to grow dangerously close.

As they pursue a deadly foe over the arid waste of the Great Salt Plain to the glittering capital of Persepolae, unearthing the secrets of Darius’s past along the way, Nazafareen is forced to query his slavery-and her own commitment towards the empire. But with an ancient bad stirring in the north, and a conqueror sweeping in through the west, the destiny of a whole civilization may be at stake .