She is the orphaned daughter of a military family stained in blood, hiding her identity among refugees. He is a sickly heir to a fief, trapped in a besieged city amid a web of political intrigue.
When the flames of revenge collide with the ideal of saving the world, two shattered souls meet on a crumbling frontier.
She wields a lost art of war to pierce the conspiracies clouding their homeland. He makes a lonely city his chess piece, navigating a chaotic age surrounded by wolves and tigers.
First they are blades testing one another; then they become people who trust each other with their backs. Amid betrayal and the fires of war, they temper their trust.
As their land lies in ruins, how can two clear-eyed souls, with nothing but their own meager strength, hold up a collapsing sky?
Watch as the orphan makes the martial world her stronghold and the art of war her sword, plays chess against fate, and ultimately carves a path from avenger to protector through a blood-soaked age.
