"Break the line, poison the well..."
Born in the wake of tragedy and raised in the cold shadow of Lord Cillian's castle, Emer lives her life as a simple washerwoman. Her world is built on suds, linens, and her grandmother's grim warnings of the Bean-nighe-the fairy washerwoman who scours the blood from the linens of those destined to die.
Legends grow from a seed of truth as the nightmares born of myth become Emer's life.
In a world ruled by those with hearts full of greed and ambition, is a promise kept enough to overcome a bargain broken?