For three hundred years the citizens of Azzura have been blocked off from the rest world. Consumed by fear and ignorance they have followed the rule of a monarchy that wants nothing more than to wield power. Hope is but a distant fantasy along with the magic and fairy tales once filling the Kingdom. Lilly Garner, unable to take what life has given her, holds on to hope that things will change and that the power and darkness that consumes them can be overthrown. Her actions lead her into becoming the target for the Prince's little games of torture and end up sending Lilly into the Aglite forest and beyond the walls of Azzura. There she becomes even more the traitor when she sides with the elves and other magic folk. Azzura is the first book in the In the Darkness Chronicles that follows Lilly and others in an adventure to freedom.