Nineteen-year-old Rina Veraiin is not your common duchess. Beautiful, sensible, and outspoken, she actually is also deadly using a sword and will outride any horseman—abilities that will can be found in convenient when her relaxing home town, Klaar, falls unexpectedly into foe hands.

With the help of her bodyguard, Kork, Rina just barely escapes with her life and stumbles headlong into a strange new world of sorcery, magical tattoos, enchanted women—and the threat of betrayal and gruesome death at every turn.

Armed with unexpected brand-new powers and accompanied by a misfit assortment of followers—some devoted, some using their personal dark intentions—Rina embarks on the quest to save lots of her city and reclaim what’s rightfully hers. By doing this, she faces the largest problem of her life: She must learn to funnel her very own strengths—magical and in any other case—and be a leader really worthy of ruling Klaar.