The world has dark days ahead and the Kingdom of Westerend is no exception. The young dragon queen Raenys reigns in a world dominated by powerful kings and lords and in faraway lands a brother and sister, Leopold and Selene, of a long-ago exiled royal family, prepare their return to claim their ancestral crown. Raenys’ distant relative Akio awaits the right time for his claim to the crown, and with claimants hiding in the shadows their fates all intertwined. In the shadows of the world unnatural beings hunt.