A wounded sagoron prince left for dead is rescued by a handmaiden of the lord who hired mercenaries to attack the young heir, forever changing the destiny of the linked lands of Cadeau and Ancient. Tobin, the son of the sagoron prince and the handmaiden, leaves the security of his guardians to join sixteen year-old Duchess Naomi, her Ancient symbiote, Prism, and a mismatched group of resistance fighters to save their planets from destruction.