The winds of change are sweeping across the planet of Zendar, and the chaos that once ruled this sandy world has calmed. The Bloodlines have fallen into a treaty of accord. Alas, the forgotten son, Titus, doesn't want peace. He craves vengeance.
Bella Corvinus, princess and sister to Aleron Corvinus and his Queen Azel, is a widow before her twentieth birthday. The day she decides to stop mourning her husband's death is the day they are attacked. Azel is taken, Aleron is injured, and Bella is lost among the dunes with her six-year-old niece, Aryia. When Draken, her brother's most trusted guard, rescues her, she finds herself drawn to him in a way she'd never imagined.
Rules will be broken, truths will be revealed, and Bella will have to overcome her fears and family's expectations or abandon a second chance at happiness.