Hazel, at 10, had experienced a far harsher life than most adults had. Her father had died when she was young, her mother showed her little to no love, and her step dad was an abusive and manipulative drunk. Only her brother made her feel safe and loved but he was sent away too soon. Now, Hazel had been ripped from her home and forced to navigate a world of magic and danger. Embracing the change, she shed her name for Aski and tried to integrate into the life Genji had planned for himself.

Feeling entitled over past wrongs, Tristan became a warrior and Mage Killer to free the land from the fear of Mages. When a raid goes wrong and Tristan finds himself impaled on an earthen spike, his life of torment begins. Losing both the ability to die and the ability to heal, Tristan must live with the pain of every wound or seek the help of a Mage to be allowed to pass from this world and be released from his torment. That is if the voice inside his head allows it.

And as these three lives become entangled a quest begins to find a powerful artifact. Something that went missing with the Crowned Prince Atalis on the eve of his father, the King's, murder.