After being wrongly accused of setting a fire in the Haunted Library, Jaylen is sentenced to death by starvation in an isolation cell on the coast of Cilona. Five months later, Archangel Carvael arrives after keeping him barely alive then takes Jaylen back to the city to compete in the deadly slave games. Will Jaylen be able to stand on his own in a strange land without his angel, Zeriel, at his side? Or will he be one of the unlucky slaves who will be exiled into the Crypt to die?