Queen Keira and her husbands can't return home. General Digron has staged a coup and vowed to kill her should she cross the border back into her own country. Yet Robarl, her second husband, is in danger, possibly in mortal peril and she refuses to leave him behind. Calling on her own abilities and the considerable ones of of her husbands, she returns to the land she ruled to find her people divided and a mysterious map to Marnash, a dark and dangerous country, may show the reasons why.

What she doesn't know could get her and her husbands killed, and when it comes to her spymaster husband, Robarl, Keira knows less than she'd like. In addition, she's coming into her power and it's starting to manifest in new and unique ways. And yet, the losses of her country and the man she loves are both on the line.