In this, the second volume of the Elf Queen of Kiirajanna series, Crown Princess Alyssa embarks on the next stage of her quest to become the elf queen. This time she must head up to the great white north in the hopes of winning Bennaeth Padrig's vote of approval. With her go her cousin Seph and the beautiful-but-deadly Prince Keion, along with Sephaline's familiar, Booboo, and Alyssa's personal bodyguard, Aerona. Around her neck she wears the powerful relic Draignerthol, which above all else she's been commanded not to use. Yet dangers await as the forces mounted against her strengthen and emerge from the shadows, and so relying upon the magic that is her birthright may be her only hope–of success, or of mere survival.