Rinna was the daughter to the advisor of the King, until a wicked plot of devastating deceit caused her to lose everything at the hands of a visiting emperor and his of fire mages. A decade later, she lives near the rundown village of Ragan, a mountain village near the border, Rinna survives on her wits and her ability to fend for herself and look after the city’s only other survivor, her family’s Major Domo. Until one day, Cai - a son of the emperor and newly decreed Lord Governor - arrives in Ragan with his closest friends, as well as his saber cat Rajah. A man unlike his father, Cai intends to restore what his father destroyed. But first he needs to earn the villagers’ trust, beginning with Rinna.