After betrayal ended her first life, Ember awakens with a chance to rewrite fate. When her faithless husband abandons her for her own sister, she binds herself to Dante, a feared ruler held in chains. Their four ash-colored children are ridiculed as powerless until a blood moon trial unleashes strength that destroys the sacred moonstone. Dante steps forward in his true authority, and the man who forged his lineage finally faces judgment.