In a nation ruled by a Goddess of Night and Shadow, Blaire is favoured by the divinity for her power over the skies and lightning. She is one of nine members of the Aequitas: a force of assassins, spies and killers tasked to serve the Goddess of Night. But when gifted children start disappearing and an oracle begins to foresee chilling prophecies everything Blaire thought she knew about her reality is called into question. Who can she trust when darkness spreads and the blood begins to run?