Publisher's Synopsis
With the death of her Aunt Regent, a young Princess Eliana of Aaru finds treachery everywhere she turns. Making the most lethal of decisions, she sends her enemies scattering for cover as she releases the very elements it is her purpose of existence to control. As the World of Aaru burns around her, will she be able to find the allies she needs before the damage is irreversible? And will she be able to ally with the very individual that brought her house down around her ears. Tricked into an assassination of the Regent, K'lownkey is trapped by the very person who tricked him. Imprisoned and seemingly forgotten, his freedom came from a most unexpected source in the spoiled princess of his enemies. Now haunted by the woman he wrongfully killed, he is oath bound to defend and support the girl he was always taught to kill. Can he regain control of his realm and keep the girl on her throne?
