Prince Vellor, the only being in existence who knows where to find the sacred life-giving diamond Lyn’Athai, has been captured. The Banished have raised him as a blood revenant—a hideous, flesh-eating abomination.

His Mistress controls everything he does, everything he thinks. He hardly remembers his life at all.

Only his corrupted infatuation with Kyleigh, a young seer from Diamond Lake, keeps him from confessing Lyn’Athai’s location to those who would use it to destroy all that is pure and lovely. Following clues to his whereabouts, Kyleigh and her companions embark on a treacherous underground journey to Nyr’Thaeda to destroy the Prince, along with his growing army of elven revenants.

Along the way, Kyleigh’s bond with him evolves into something deeper, something vile, until she finds herself desiring the undesirable. Plagued with nightmarish visions of the future, she must face both terror and grief before making the hardest decision of her life.

Only then can she determine if she really is that girl in the High Seer’s prophecy—the girl destined to save the elves of Ethynwen. Even so, will that be enough to protect Lyn’Athai?.