Annalise has spent her entire life surviving her father, the revered sheriff of South Hollow. One violent night, she's forced to choose between her life and his. Bleeding, terrified, and convinced she's just murdered one of the most powerful men in town, she and her best friend Matt flee into the storm... only to be caught by the men who should have been protecting her all along. After the truth is buried under a veil of lies, the judge sentences them to ten years of service in the Thandroanian military-an unprecedented punishment that lands them at Scion Military Academy. Thrown into a world of dragons, spell casters, and spies-Annalise must become a weapon if she has any hope of surviving the illusion-warped war raging along the kingdom's southern border after graduation.