The power of the Three is absolute, and their families are untouchable. The lives of the monarch’s children are predetermined from birth, but everything changes when the older son of the Commander-in-Chief is assassinated. Trust is an illusion, and the closer Ryan Vessell—whose brother has been taken—gets to that truth, the more sharply he realizes: the cost of power is too high. Who will become the next victim of shadow games? And who is nurturing the darkness behind the capital’s spotless façades?