Once a skilled alchemist, Helena Marino is now a captive-of war and her own mind. Her Resistance comrades and allies have been cruelly killed, her powers suppressed, and her world shattered. Post a lengthy war, Paladia's new ruling elite of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, who employed vile undead creatures to secure their triumph, hold Helena prisoner. Records suggest she was a healer of minor significance. However, Helena's inexplicable memory loss preceding her capture raises Is she truly inconsequential, or do her lost memories conceal a crucial piece of the Resistance's final strategy? To retrieve the memories hidden deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, a formidable and merciless necromancer. Trapped in his decaying estate, Helena's struggle-to safeguard her lost past and preserve the remnants of her former self-commences. For her prison and captor harbor secrets of their own, secrets Helena must unveil, no matter the cost.