Bound by duty and financial desperation, Alana finds herself saying yes when her prince requests a clandestine escort into their neighboring country. When their covert exploration takes a deadly turn, Alana sacrifices herself to save him, leading her to enter a contract as a mercenary heading across the ocean to a land on the cusp of war. Every day she must fight to survive forging an alliance with her people's enemy, an Azure Warrior named Calix against the other mercenaries out for blood.
Their blood.
On the voyage Alana struggles against not only the machinations of a cruel captain, a cold-eyed guard overseeing her training but her growing feelings for Calix, who’s intent on winning her friendship. With every passing day away from home, Alana fights to keep secrets long hidden, if revealed could potentially deepen the divide between their two countries.
If they live through it.