Camavor is a brutal land with a bloody legacy. Where the empire’s knights go, slaughter follows. Kalista seeks to change that. When her young and narcissistic uncle, Viego, becomes king, she vows to temper his destructive instincts, as his loyal confidant, advisor, and military general. But her plans are thwarted when an assassin‘s poisoned blade strikes, Viego‘s wife, Isolde, reflecting her with a malady for which there is no cure. As Isolde’s condition, worsens, Viego descends into madness. Kalista makes a desperate gambit: she searches for the long, lost, Blessed Isles, rumored to hold the queen‘s salvation if only Kalista can find them