The Three Courts of Allforth have lived peacefully for generations, but they all keep a deadly secret that is about to break free…

Blackthorn, the Silvervale Court executioner, has not questioned his duties, he knows he sends the condemned to The Great Dreaming peacefully. He is an Evergreen; one of the rare people able to wield magic past childhood. But when a young boy on his execution table insists that something terrible is going on in their kingdom, Blackthorn secretly spares the boy’s life, asking for proof.

When a beautiful healer from the land of Amberfire, Roseleigh, is brought in to be executed next, Blackthorn hesitates, drawn to her. His death spell rebounds on him and only her healing light can spare him. He leaves the castle for recuperation and learns more about a world in which he was kept ignorant.

A playwright named Will, a strange dreamer from another world, insists that Blackthorn and Roseleigh are a Faerie king and queen meant to return their land to glory. The more that Blackthorn lives outside his castle strictures, the more he understands he was living a lie.

Silvervale and Amberfire children have been imprisoned in mines that stifle magic across the isle in order to keep royal families in power. A stealthy, brave group of Evergreen, led by Blackthorn and Roseleigh, band together to upend the torturous system and return natural magic back to all, As executioner and healer join their magics, not only does their attraction ignite, but they create a safe haven for all the lives they begin to save.