In this highly anticipated second installment of the sizzling and epic romantic fantasy trilogy, Paedyn and Kai grapple with duty and desire as the kingdom of Ilya plunges into turmoil. Having survived the Purging Trials, Paedyn Gray, an Ordinary-born, has sparked a Resistance after killing the King. Now on the run, she's fleeing from the one person she had hoped to seek refuge with: Kai Azer. Meanwhile, Kai has become Ilya's Enforcer, loyal to his brother Kitt, the new King, and is determined to find Paedyn and bring her to justice. As Kai pursues Paedyn across the deadly Scorches and into the hostile city of Dor, the balance between hunter and hunted shifts in a city without Elites, where the battle between duty and desire becomes deadly.