Some will attempt to trap her in hopes of harnessing her dark power. Others will seek to get rid of her, deeming it as well horrible to risk. In the long run, he will destroy them all-because Quinn is certainly his weapon, and he programs to keep it that way.

Lazarus was warned that Quinn’s power may be too great, even for him, but nothing at all prepared him for the reality of it until she held a dagger more than him, and he was powerless to stop it. Right now at odds with himself, the near future king of Norcasta must find a way to regain about Blessed Become the Wicked control of his home and protected an alliance using the Pirate Queen . before fate tips its hands once again, and his carefully laid programs are led astray.

Quinn’s loyalty is not quickly won, but Lazarus provides managed to do it. Now the vassal and right-hand of Lord Fierte, Quinn looks for to gain him an alliance with Ilvas all the while complicated him at every switch. Using the Cisean tribes won over, as well as the blood heirs in it, Quinn expects this to be a simple task, but shortly discovers herself entangled within a web of lies.

Compelled to gamble with her life-and the lives of her comrades-Quinn must make a choice which will either conserve or doom them all.

Contains mature themes.