Raised in devotion by four adoptive fathers, orphan Lyla once knew only warmth. Everything changes when Isolde, Morwen’s daughter, comes back and turns the others against her, trapping Lyla in humiliation and pain. When the lies finally unravel, the fathers are left with nothing but belated remorse. Lyla then falls from the city, crosses into another time, and finds her mother, Lenore. Pulled back to the royal city by another realm, the two see the suffering the four men left behind—and Lenore answers it by slaying the four kings herself.