With the blood of a dead god flowing through her veins, Lorana of Solen bears a magic that is as pitied as it is feared. It is a secret she guards, even from her close childhood friend, a watchman named Roan. Despite her cursed silver blood, she wishes to serve the gods above all else. When the local priest is murdered she volunteers to travel to the high temple to take her vow to become priestess. Lorana and Roan kindle a budding romance as they journey to the high temple, but the murderer seems to stalk their every move. Even the high temple offers little sanctuary, hiding perilous mysteries of its own. The high temple forbids those with silver blood to serve. Now Lorana struggles to keep her faith when faced with an impossible decision: her magic or the temple.