When 18-year-old Illya's village burns down during an enemy raid, her entire life goes up in smoke. The woman who raised her is dead, and now so is everyone else. Surviving by dumb luck, she leaves everything she once knew behind to begin a quest of self-discovery. Along the way, she runs into an old rival who knows more than he lets on, and a renegade warrior from the tribe of her enemy. With a 200-year war threatening to consume the land, tensions rise on all fronts as they learn there is much more at play behind the war than they originally thought. The more Illya digs to uncover who she really is, the more questions begin to surface. But what she never considered was how much these answers would cost, and what it would take to save her people. Will she have the strength to defeat the dark forces threatening to destroy everything she loves, or will they consume her?