Drawn to Josiah's strength and the heat in his eyes, Ella enters the violence-filled warrens burdened by a secret yet buoyed by hope. In a place where loyalty is everything and the price of betrayal is death, she's determined to make a life for herself and mother the son who is the reason for her marriage.

But when Josiah takes a dangerous prisoner, the happiness that's finally within reach is threatened by the sister whose place she took—when the warlord demanded a bride.