In the kingdom of Horem, magic belongs only to the two royal blood. When the incumbent old king dies, the crown should pass to the Gallagher line. Instead, Barco (the heir to Marcus the incumbent king) strikes first. He wipes out the family and leaves young Donald for dead on a mountain cliff.Donald’s soul escapes the dying body and finds a new home in the empty shell of a hunter’s son. With a simple silver band that hides every trace of magic, he walks into the palace under a false, scholarship name. There he sits in the same classrooms as Leah, the girl he once loved in secret. She feels the quiet pull of something familiar in the new scholarship student but cannot name it.The men who took everything from him sleep under the same roof. His real body is gone. Time is running out. Every careful step, every held silence, and every stolen glance draws the danger closer. One slip of the band and the truth will burn him alive.