An insane sorcerer. A banished thief. A kingdom hanging in the balance.

Kaislyn is caught up in a game of game of life and death when she's banished to the mountains and faced with an old enemy. Resuming her ancient feud with the former king Ikaros, she plunges recklessly into plots of poison and treason. Haunted by her past mistakes, Kaislyn will stop at nothing to defeat him. But at what price?

With everyone she loves threatened, Kaislyn must embrace the powers of the forgotten Serpent House--powers that rival the Phoenix Queen herself. And she's not going to let a little thing like dying get in her way.