"You can't just invade, they'll have men with crossbows looking out for you. They use poisoned arrows, they can fell your outriders in seconds."
Cassai has managed the unthinkable by killing thousands and Ackbarr can no longer ignore the tiny country defying them. Mika must make a choice who she stands with - her adopted country or the homeland who expelled her as an animal. In the meanwhile, her grip on the human world is sliding...
The Medici Chronicles follows Mika through nearly twenty years of her life as she disguises herself as a boy to survive, learns to become a Medici and struggles to find where she belongs.