Eighteen-year-old Levee Tensley is just another citizen of Nevaharday until her uncanny talent with horses earns her an apprenticeship under Arelee, the Royal Horsemistress responsible for breeding and training the kingdom’s war mounts.​ It is a golden opportunity that may finally give her a chance to fit in and feel normal for once. The only kink in that plan is that her talent isn’t normal.

 

Levee was born among one of the rahee's nomadic clans, known as the kaises. Until the age of nine, she traveled with her family and performed equine acrobatics until an unprovoked attack on her caravan left her orphaned. She barely managed to escape the slaughter on the back of her pony, Melee. Eventually, she ended up at Milo Kasateno‘s door, and he and his mother took her in.​ From then on, she lived in Nevaharday as one of its citizens.

 

But she never fit into that place. Nevaharday's disdain for the kaises made it difficult for her to form any real connections beyond Milo and his mother. When she became an apprentice and moved onto the castle's grounds, she felt even more pressure to keep her origins under wraps.

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However, not everyone shares that disdain. To her surprise, the prince is one of them. After he realizes her attempts to mask her origins weren't out of deception but rather fear, the two form an unexpected friendship.

 

That bond only grows as an ominous threat targets them both, thrusting them into an adventure that neither of them asked for, yet would change their lives completely.