It has been fifteen years since the Dragon Accords had been signed by the Seven Kingdoms. Fifteen years since the Queen of Illandus retired her elite five, her Garden, and within those fifteen years, her Garden split off on their own to try to live their new lives as normal citizens despite having been employed as anything but normal for most of their lives, leaving the Queen's Garden as little more than a myth. After years of peace and harmony, someone has massacred four of the Seven Royals, and everyone is a suspect. Cypress, the former leader of the Garden, is determined to find out who is behind the attack, but he knows he cannot do it alone if he wants to stop them before they can succeed in sending the Seven Kingdoms into utter turmoil. In order to succeed he knows he needs to find the others, but have they been apart for too long?