Ultima Skylar's life was about to change when an assassin killed the Prince Regent of her Kingdom while she was kissing him. She never expected to have a dead man in her arms and have the killer looking at her, face to face, ready to kill her next. She became a suspect when she was the only witness to the murder but could not identify the killer.

Having kept her magic a secret all her adult life, she could not tell anyone what she felt the day of the assassination. Her owner, Xawata Faan, threatened to kill her only daughter if she let anyone know of her secrets. An assassin was loose in the Kingdom. And now Ultima and the rest of the Royal family were being targeted.

The King was dying, and his second son, the next Prince Regent, was lost in a war. A quest for the assassin and a new Regent for the Kingdom began, and Ultima had to help.

Will Ultima find a way to escape her slave master and find the assassin? Will she find a way to get her daughter to safety? Will a new regent be found before the old King dies and Tsestelago falls into darkness?