Ashkadance is in turmoil. With the dragons missing and a mysterious fateless plague leaving citizens crazed and loveless, nothing and no one in their enclosed kingdom is safe.

When Ember’s one rebellion leads to her beastly birthmark being revealed, she discovers not all is as it seems.

Now that she has her fated mate and a kingdom celebrating her as the lost princess, will she risk all that she has gained to accept her destiny?