The beginning of this story starts with a young woman who was forced to flee her country, to disappear supposedly forever as she runs from a man who wants her to either marry him or otherwise die. Here the story splits two ways, between two people: One line follows the path of the young woman's daughter as she adjusts from a life of murderous crime to learning of her true heritage and past and her struggles to come to grips with it. The other follows the life of a young man who is seemingly a nobody, living on the outskirts of poverty, however, he learns soon enough that he is anything but. Will he accept his role or continue to fight it? Will she accept her heritage, or abandon it to a greedy, power-hungry court?