Sixteen-year-old Aliedora is married off to the neighbor nobleman. Not wanting to endure her husband’s mockery, she escapes from the castle. A conflict flares between noble houses, which soon escalates into a full-scale war. A great many adventures and hardships will fall to the lot of the young beauty. She will have to fight, end up in captivity, endure humiliation, and endure betrayal by those close to her. She will learn that she is marked with Rot, become the Hound of the Necropolis, and meet the one she has been sent to hunt—the Thorn—so they can fight side by side.