Chapter One

Miss Grace Bennett is the last person one would expect to see in a war zone. She has never left the capital city of Mirran , has never been in a fight, and tries her hardest to avoid the attention of the city authorities that imprisoned her mother and who would do the same to her. Orphaned and isolated, seventeen year old Grace spends her days as a stagehand at one of the city's many music halls, using skill and some unique talents to make a name for herself in the theatre district. But outside the city, war is raging, and Grace cannot escape its reach forever. After an unexpected encounter, she finds herself on the frontlines, and somehow, the fate of her country is in her hands, and she will have to draw on all of her gifts in order to save it, even those that she wishes she did not have, even those that she has spent years hiding.