Is it easy for a child who doesn’t know their ancestors to live among those who flaunt their noble birth? Even their enemies wouldn’t claim otherwise. After all, it’s exactly they who do a lot so that this picked-up waif never forgets her place. Branka was found as a newborn in a strange place: the Valley of Dead Ancestors. She survived there—so one of the ancestors’ spirits took her under its protection. So she, too, had the right to live. But for this life, she’ll have to fight—for her life and for her place in it.
Yet does the girl really have to fight only with people? What demon frightens her at night and threatens to take her life away?