The only child of a barbaric king is kidnapped and sentenced to death for her father's sins against the people. As her father casts a blanket of death over the land, seeking the return of the daughter heir and vengeance upon the traitorous men that have taken her, Carista is forced into the filthy bowels of the kingdom's underworld. Her captors passing her into the care of their most ruthless and brutal mercenary. Yet her strength of spirit will not be broken and she eventually earns more than just the respect of her murderous warder.