Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has survived ten brutal years in Zalindov—the most feared prison in the kingdom—by keeping her head down and healing those no one else dares to touch.
When the Rebel Queen is brought in, barely alive and sentenced to the deadly Trial by Ordeal, Kiva is given an impossible order from her family: Don’t let her die. We are coming.
To buy time, Kiva volunteers to take the queen’s place—facing four elemental trials that no one has ever survived. But death isn’t her only concern. An incurable plague is sweeping the prison. A mysterious new inmate stirs something she never expected. And rebellion is brewing in the shadows.
Survival was hard enough before.
Now, everything she cares about is on the line.
