When Selah found true love with Prince Torden of Norway, she never imagined she’d have to leave him behind, banished from his court as a traitor and a spy. All because the Beholder’s true mission was a secret Selah’s crew didn’t trust her to keep: transporting weapons to rebels fighting against the brutal tsarytsya. Her Imperiya’s shadow looms over the ship’s next port: Shvartsval’d, a place Selah hoped she would never have to go.

But gone is the girl filled with fear. Now, with a stockpile of weapons belowdecks and another prince waiting in the next port, Selah is determined to see the Beholder’s quest to its end.