Six years ago, an oracle descended. When Crown Princess Isolde of Sevina was found to be pregnant out of wedlock, the entire kingdom was thrown into an uproar. To save her child, she endured six years of shame and seclusion.
Now she returns to the capital with her son Lane, only to face her father's scorn, her half sister Lilian's scheming, and her fiancé Prince Fred's relentless humiliation. Just when Isolde is cornered on all sides, salvation arrives. Kaelan, the new Emperor of the Oren Empire, follows the divine oracle and personally leads his cavalry to Sevina to seek her hand. This emperor, feared across every nation, makes a promise to her: he will accept her child, and shield them with all his might.
Six-year-old Lane wields the dual powers of elemental control and dragon taming, and has become his mother's fiercest protector.
Fred and Lilian turn to forbidden dark magic, awakening a demon sealed for a millennium. Darkness engulfs the continent. Court, battlefield, and the realm of gods and demons churn into a single storm: Isolde fights for her life, Lane faces a deadly trial, and Kaelan confronts his own inner demons. Fate bears down on a family of three. Only love and divine power can defy the darkness that threatens to swallow everything.