Dayah is the lady-in-waiting to the youngest member of the royal Petrov family. Due to her abnormal court standings, she is protected from all harm and danger any vampire could inflict upon her. While living among the royals, Dayah must learn how to wield her power without invoking the wrath of every court member in the castle. She works without end to help her people break the chains of slavery all humans are born into and as Dayah finds herself defying death more than once, she struggles to find the reason as to why the royal family bothers to keep her alive. Between her budding romance with the youngest Petrov prince and preforming court duties that force her to walk a thin line with her vampire cohorts, Dayah must learn to not only survive living in the most bloody and dangerous kingdom for her kind but also wield her small power to change it for good.