No good deed goes unpunished…

When thief Ember Hart saves a maiden from a murderous secret society, she finds herself sacrificed in the girl’s place. Anointed ‘the Promised One’, Ember’s prophesised arrival sets her on the path to an unholy union with the kingdom’s beastly prince, but she has no intention of being a sacrificial lamb – at least, not again – so when Rhaell, the gruff captain of the guards, proposes an alliance to restore the kingdom’s lost magic and then use it to send Ember home, she readily agrees.

But gathering the scattered pieces of the Heart of Yskar they need isn’t going to be easy, and with her awareness of Rhaell growing with every barb and bated breath, Ember will need a bit of her own unique magic to escape this world unscathed…