Do not use magic. Do not hide magic. Do not witness magic. Do not consort with magic-users.

Magic is outlawed. The Mondi are extinct. And Catherine Sinclair is trained to keep it that way. In the thriving capital of Ivory Hill, Catherine isn't just another girl—she's a soldier in the King’s Legion Army. When she and the handsome almost-royal Tatum Thorne are recruited for a special team that will be sent to the old capital, Catherine is ready. But what begins as a simple assignment unearths more than ancient ruins—it unravels everything she thought she knew. 

Whispers of undead magic. Shadows that speak. A stranger with fire in his eyes and secrets that might burn down the world. And Catherine finds herself in the center of it all.

Now doubting the beliefs she was raised on, Catherine must choose: cling to the life she knows and hide from who she is–or follow her instincts and face the truth of who she could become.

Tatum will chase her. Pirates will kidnap her. Mondi will try to save her–or burn her. And lurking in the shadows, waiting to be revealed is the truth about the Daystar Prophecy.