I came into this world kicking and screaming and killing.  Not that I meant to, of course.

​These words open Calista Rose Shepherd's story.  Born on the 21st day of Wintersong in the Year of the Lion on the longest night of the year, her birth comes at the cost of her mother and twin brother's lives. She herself is cursed with unnatural purple eyes that see nothing to pay the price for a secret bargain her mother made.  Sometimes she sees life smudges, blurs of color where there are living things, as if she is fighting this curse she knows nothing about.

Meanwhile in Sanglier, the province bordering Leander, a bastard prince is born to the king and a servant girl.  Having no other heirs, he names the son his successor, calling him Lysander.  Three years later, the queen becomes pregnant and Lysander and his mother are tossed aside and sent to an abandoned Leandan castle.  Lysander, who prefers the name his mother gave him, Damien, grows up with rejection heavy in his heart.  Because of this, he too, is placed under a curse that only love can break.



When fate brings them together, can Calista and Damien find the love in their hearts to break their curses?