Love and responsibility collide when Taya is appointed attaché to Ondinium’s first exalted ambassador and it is soon plunged right into a sinister globe of secrets and lies. Following the diplomatic contingent’s hasty drawback from Mareaux in order to avoid an international incident, Taya’s faith is normally shaken by a disastrous crash and a tragic murder, which reveals just how much she has to reduce. Now, if she is going to fulfill her responsibility to her country, she must risk everything she cares about. As the winds of war whip around Ondinium’s borders, Taya’s steel wings must bear her through storms, gunfire, and explosions as she fights to save them not only using their opponents, but also using their very own government-a authorities that regards them as nothing more than clockwork cogs within a ruthless political machine.