For most, death is an ending. But for Morgain Muirdoch, it's a dangerous new beginning.

As the second born daughter of House Muirdoch, she has been sworn since birth to serve for a decade among the Steelfated, the elite warriors who are front line of defense against the deadliest threat the Tuathan Highlands have ever faced, the Mistbourne. So as custom decrees, she attends her own funeral on her seventeenth birthday.

Once enlisted, she finds her family name means next to nothing, and old rivalries less. Serving alongside, and often above, the nobility are veterans, criminals, the destitute, and even a handful of foreigners.

When an attempt at using magic to save a life goes catastrophically wrong, she finds the very threads of her life entangled with those of Radyn Halstraad, the son of her family's ancestral rivals. Unable find a solution to the problem among the Steelfated, they are sent seeking outside help. Eventually it is Fey Court, who offer a solution. Albeit one no mortal has undergone in almost three millennia. But bargaining with the Fey might prove to be more dangerous than dying.