She wants to earn her Valkyrie wings. He wants to burn every Valkyrie to ash. Princess Madivia is the Ice Court's best kept secret-- until the Valkyrie come for her. Only her family knows what she can really do, and how dangerous it is to leave her tower. But, she has been selected by the gods themselves to train at Featherblade to become a Valkyrie, an elite fae guardian of Odin. If she is to make it against the other rooks, survive the Wild Hunt, or battle against the Frost Giants, she has to earn her wings and bond with an ancient animal gifted to her by the gods. She has to get stronger, and work out who her enemies are, and who she can trust. And she has to do it all under the burning gaze of Kain the Ruinous. Villain of Featherblade. Her obsession. The disgraced fire-fae combat trainer has had his wings removed and been cursed to burn anyone he touches. He is bound to Featherblade, but he makes no secret of the fiery devastation he would wreak if he could leave. And it doesn't take him long to realize that Maddy and her secrets are the key to his revenge. She knows she should avoid him. He's lethal, unhinged, and feeds on fear. But he follows her every move, he shows up whenever she is in danger, and he dominates her dreams. He tests her, pushes her, threatens to find, and break, her limits. When he is standing before her, fire in his eyes and heat blazing from his cursed skin, Maddy fears she would let the world go up in flames if he told her to. And if she's not strong enough, that may be exactly what happens.