Melia Avaros has lived her life as a slave, until one day she took her chance to escape and crossed paths with the Wizard prince Tristan. She never expected him to try to help her get away, let alone to claim her as his wife. Deeply suspicious of this deeply mysterious man, she could not help to be drawn towards him, his dark power and seductive aura. But with him came danger of a new kind, the danger of his courtly world and the turmoil of the royal snakes wanting to see him dead, or worse, and her becoming just another tool to get to him. Can she resist his dark allure and the doomed fate that comes with it? Or does she even want to?