Upon returning from an overseas trading voyage, Yatania Seffeln finds her hometown destroyed, the buildings burnt down to ash, the population massacred. None of the letters she sends to the neighbouring towns or the capital city in search of help are answered, until finally the last person she expected to hear back from responds to her desperate plea for assistance.
The God of Autumn and his Seasonal brothers wrote back, requesting her presence at the castle in the eastern continent. Even with the web of terrifying rumours spun around these four young gods that possess the magic to control the weather and bring seasons to the land, she can't ignore the only people that are trying to help.
As she adjusts to new roles and struggles with problems both new and old, it doesn't help that she's starting to favour the attention of one of the Seasonal brothers that keeps seeking her out...