Corayne lives at the end of the world. Year after year, she watches her pirate mother sail away to adventures she'll never share with Corayne. So when a mysterious immortal and deadly assassin appear on Corayne's doorstep telling her she is the last member of a dying bloodline and the only one who can save the world, Corayne seizes the chance to have her own adventure.
Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the trecherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.