"Decide who you will live for. Who will you fight for? And who will you die for? Anna is nothing more than a simple maid and she has a very clear rule: she must not go near the fire. Bastien Doyle is the young aristocrat who almost died in a fire and whose face was forever marked. Lya Altair is a noble--a dreamy girl who all she does is wait for her prince charming. The lives of Anna, Bastien and Lya are united by a fragile bond that is about to be severed. It will no longer matter who they were, but who they are and who they will become. In Valerya's kingdom there are no princes or a happily ever after. Here, a single wrong step can end your life forever. In Valerya, the blood of the gods runs through the veins of its people"--
