“The princess must do handicrafts, be kind, gentle, and obedient,” Yaroslav kept hearing—but she never really listened. Since childhood she had watched her uncle’s retinue, learned the art of war, and mastered the sword. The girl wanted to prove to everyone that not only a man can take up a sword and stand up to defend a principality. But when a claimant’s signet ring ends up in her hands, defending herself now becomes her task. The navia creatures she had only heard about from the stories of her warriors now pursue the princess everywhere. Can she find a way to be saved from them?