Princess Sorcha Baratheon knows she must devote her life to defending her throne. Her home is filled with daggers for her back and worse, her lover is trying to usurp her rule. On top of it all her country is bankrupt and plagued by civil war. Now she must transform from a Stag to a Mockingbird to keep herself alive and become the Queen of War in the process.

Nina Dicentra is a practiced theif, perfectly content to build her own world from wine and skooma and stay there. Everything changes when she Joins the Dark Brotherhood and discovers that she cannot leave. That gives her one choice; outwit The Night Mother herself.