A cold-blooded prince. A steel-hearted princess. Aria, the bastard daughter of the King of Celenial is forced to marry Ellian, the prince of Oceana, as a means to stop the 100 year war waging between the two kingdoms. It is her duty, a heavy one. When the King dies a few days after her arrival, she is forced to step up as the queen, and try to find the group of gifted that are to blame. Not everything is how it seems, among a cruel King and an even crueler gifted leader, she has to protect herself and everything she holds dear, whatever the sacrifice.