“Should it be this easy to commit a murder?”

Morgain Muirdoch is no stranger to killing. As a member of the Steelfated, combat is a near-daily reality of her life. The Steelfated are a bulwark, a shield protecting the Tuathan Highlands from the Mistbourne. But hunting someone down on another’s orders does not feel like just killing. But a debt for services already rendered must be repaid. Especially when that contract is with the Fey.

She was warned, but assured herself and her superiors she knew the risks. This bargain not only indebted herself but also Radyn Halstraad, the son of her family’s ancient ancestral rivals. Her deal with the Fey has left the pair of them inextricably bound by magic, their duty, their debt, and perhaps more.

Membership in the Steelfated is unpredictable, dangerous, and difficult at the best of times. But rapid-fire changes, new leadership, new technology, new recruits, and dangerous, intelligent new types of Mistbourne have caused more upheaval in two months than in the last two centuries. Morgain and Radyn are caught in the epicenter of this deadly new reality.

And the Fey are calling in their debt.

For most, death is an ending. But for Morgain Muirdoch, it’s a dangerous new beginning.
As the second-born daughter of House Muirdoch, she has been sworn since birth to serve for a decade among the Steelfated, the elite warriors who are the front line of defense against the deadliest threat the Tuathan Highlands have ever faced, the Mistbourne. So, as custom decrees, she attends her funeral on her seventeenth birthday.
Once enlisted, she finds her family name means next to nothing, and old rivalries less. Serving alongside, and often above, the nobility are veterans, criminals, the destitute, and even a handful of foreigners.
When an attempt at using magic to save a life goes catastrophically wrong, she finds the very threads of her life entangled with those of Radyn Halstraad, the son of her family’s ancestral rivals. Unable to find a solution to the problem among the Steelfated, they are sent seeking outside help. Eventually, it is Fey Court who offer a solution. Albeit one no mortal has undergone in almost three millennia. But bargaining with the Fey might prove to be more dangerous than dying.