After her mother's death Ace's father sells her to slavers from Tywinter. She meets an elf named Fenris who is also enslaved. They never saw eye to eye and yet when he is almost beaten to death she does the unthinkable to save him. Will Ace be able to get both herself and Fenris away from their master, Denarius' dark plans? Will she finally discover the meaning of her odd tattoo like markings she was born with? And what of Spade? The odd girl who has identical markings? Is there more linking them together than just their marks?