After uncovering the secrets of her grandfather's exile, Lucy Thorne didn't think her life could get any more complicated. But that's never the case, is it? She's now bound to a vampire and in debt to a dragon. As her two seemingly separate problems collide, she accepts help from an enemy. But there is always a cost in this world of monsters and magic. So, when unforeseen consequences threaten her life, she may have no other choice but to ask for help from an unexpected ally if she's to make it out alive. When the stakes rise, she will have to choose between the person she is and who she must become. Even if it means becoming the hero she never wanted to be.