Tilter Gallant was born to a noble house of the highest standing, heir to all her father’s lands and vassals. Equally at home on the ballroom floor as on the battlefield, Tilter was raised from an early age to further her family’s legacy. And while she may still harbor a secret preference for dresses and corsage, few can match her talent for armored violence. It seemed certain she would raise her House to greatness.

The Bloody Pasture changed everything.

Now, stripped of home and title, her brother dead and her surviving friends turned to enemies, Tilter is a name forgotten. She is beyond even the protection of the Sisters Alicorn. Her House is ruin, her father a beggar in an empty castle. The agents of the Knights Exemplar and their wizard masters hunt her and those like her to the ends of the earth. Only with a king’s ransom could she save her family now. And in desperation, even the most suicidal of chances must seem like a lifeline.