What would you sacrifice to keep your kingdom alive?

In the Land of Dreams, light means life, tradition is law, and power is bought with blood. As Lord Crushma faces his own slow death, he races to secure his legacy before enemies close in and darkness swallows the Westlands. His solution is a political marriage, but his only heir is unfit to rule, his allies are corrupt, and every choice threatens to damn the realm he's trying to save.

His most dangerous option is an ambitious Count, brilliant at starting conflicts and catastrophic at ending them. To refuse her may doom the Westlands. To accept her may ensure its destruction. The alternative is a young girl not nearly old enough to be courted, and Crushma must choose between the lesser of two evils.

But Keneira, the girl's fiercely protective sister, will not let tradition force her sister into a monstrous union. Her desperate defiance sparks a chain of betrayal and bloodshed, turning marriage into a weapon and a legacy into a battle.

As survival twists sin into strategy and two great houses spiral into ruin, who will fall first?