It is time to be tested for apprenticeship into a female society that feeds on the life energy of other beings. The price of initiation leaves Cynderet reeling from loss and the mortal target of the society's very source of power. Cynderet seeks solace within her own mind. Latent telepathic powers begin to blossom while society seeks to destroy her. In a desperate act, she befriends a battle-proven lord and his circle of great warriors. She discovers she is part of a saga that started long before her birth and a pursuit that traverses the planes of existence. Burning questions demand answers: What murderous secret demands Cynderet's life? Why is her mother in league with the vilest of creatures? How did she arrive in the hall of these blade masters? Who are the children that haunt her dreams? Pursuing answers, choices must be made challenging everything she understands, and everything she values.

She must choose to either ally with her society or with complete strangers in a futile attempt to preserve the lives of those whom her society feeds upon. No matter which choice she makes her life will be the cost.