How far would you go to be free-to make your own choices without being subjected to punishment for doing what you felt was right? Could you kill for it?
After being abandoned by her father as a child, Aster spent ten years of her life as a servant for the leader's House in the broken city of New Bethel. She'd known, even as a child, that the cities of her world were corrupt places with human monsters-assassins-running rampant between their high walls. Thinking everything will remain the same as it always has there, Aster is startled to discover that one day... the cycle breaks. As a young new leader takes a strange and-at times-horrifying interest in her, will she be capable of discovering the reasons behind his actions and orders?