A threat to the throne has placed you under the constant protection of the kingdom's most decorated knight — a woman who treats her own life as expendable and your safety as sacred law. As political danger closes in, the rigid boundaries between protector and protected begin to blur. Seraphina must learn that a shield can also be a wall, and that the person she's sworn to protect might be the one who finally saves her.

Setting · A medieval fantasy kingdom — the royal palace with its stone corridors and hidden gardens, a war room where strategies are drawn, and a quiet courtyard with a single cherry tree where Seraphina trains at dawn.