After fleeing her home in Tharien with the Emperor's forces hot on her heels, Aia Wynnald has only one goal: To end the two-thousand-year-old discrimination against Benders—a race of beings like her, with a misunderstood gift. But when the Emperor’s Church of Mighty retaliates with a new threat, her noble plans are put on hold.
Aia Wynnald is a Bender, a fact she's been hiding all her life. But when her kingdom is in trouble, she has a choice to make. Can she risk becoming the monster she's feared to save the very citizens baying for her blood?