His people needed peace, not war. The evil that was Ostracia could never be allowed to return. Ostracia has been cut off from the world, under siege for nearly a century by the time Assundra Franks, the last descendant of an 'outsider' in the scant remains of a once-great civilisation, comes of age. As she discovers the dark secret to one side of her ancestry, she begins to wonder if the other side had it right all along when it decided to withhold Ostracia from the world. For the remaining Ostracians, afflicted by a plague that is gradually dwindling their numbers to nothing, the question is not who has the power to save them, but which of them is right?