Gifted elven archer Leyrel is sacrificed by her corrupt royal elders, traded away into an abusive arranged union with a vicious reptilian prince to secure border treaties. Isolated and despairing, she realizes she is carrying the child of an enigmatic wanderer she met months earlier in the misty woods.
Believing him to be a powerless drifter, Leyrel prepares to shoulder her clan's cruelty alone, completely unaware that her lover is Calian, the supreme celestial sovereign. Enraged by her mistreatment, Calian obliterates her enemies before posing as a modest commoner to sign a protective pact at the sacred altar. Leyrel confronts vicious court intrigue head-on, backed by an all-powerful husband hiding his terrifying divinity in plain sight.
