When a devastating family betrayal shatters her life and threatens everything she values, Oswin flees home rather than submit to her father's authority. But when she is mortally injured in an escape gone dangerously awry, all seems hopeless.
Close to death, she makes a desperate appeal to the holy pantheon and is swept up in a confluence of events she could never have imagined. When she regains consciousness in an improvised hospital, amidst a virulent magical plague and with a priest of the death god by her side, with the help of this unexpected ally she must face tragedy and risk her freedom to save her betrothed and the people of her village.