Huntsmen endlessly slaughter curses, magic users born from pieces of forsaken deities. One of those huntsmen is Malik Devoran, an indenture to his own bloodline. After returning home from a two year trip, he soon finds his life intertwining with three others.

Allied to huntsmen is the foreign Nyaoro family. Heir to the Head of the family, Lilith Nyaoro fled her country as she grew sick of living in the shadows of others. She finds Malik again, determined to rekindle their childhood friendship.

Hours away, a woman simply named Aspen leads a group of wanted curses to the sanctuary of Tiriel, a hidden city in the northern mountains. As winter begins, she finds a temporary home in the walls of an abandoned monastery, unaware of the violence yet to come.

One of her precious curses becomes Zephyr Tsvetanov with enough blood on her hands to never go thirsty. Fleeing from a massacre, all she wants is to forget what death feels like, but the gods are rarely merciful.

Then again, what happened to each of them was not the fault of the gods.