A woman willing to cheat the system for the power to save her sister must decide if her own humanity is a price worth paying. She'd say the risk would always be worth it, but her life is upended when she discovers a drug that the nobility have been using all along to enhance their magic. If she's willing to risk using it, the power she's always sought is within reach. But when a forbidden love sparks and she discovers her own magical identity is a lie, she must decide who she will trust – the man she may love with too many secrets or a charming royal who promises to save her sister if she secures his rule – and what she will risk, as her own humanity emerges as the cost of the power she could wield.