Aurelia Estelle Delvér. The name of a child whispered through hushed voices in the hazy alleyways of century-old cities that had risen out of the ashes of the war to end all wars. The deadliest feud that world had seen and of the likes mankind would never see again. But two ruthless families had also risen, bringing themselves to high power and ranking, both competing for the crown of Avaritia and the right to call their son the heir to the nation frozen in an era of reconstructing their livelihoods. Both families battling endlessly at court, where too many fatal secrets lie. And where the entire system could fall apart at the hands of a girl in her seventeenth year, still a child with the weight of a nation resting on her shoulders.