Carissa is a lovely girl with sparkling blue eyes and hair as black as ink at night. She falls in love with the handsome Sir Raymond and they are soon wed leaving her friend Alia feeling betrayed and abandoned. Alia sets out to prove herself just as capable of finding love as Carissa, only to be abused and tossed aside. Dying she does the only thing available to her. She calls out to the powers of the Night Mother. She is tired of being dead last. Tired of being cast aside and used. It is time for her to shine and those that hurt her to die!