内容简介：
The Kingas assassin and daughter, Alendrea, is sent on a covert mission to obtain a charismatic painteras secrets. She learns not only Callinas secrets, but also some fundamental truths about life in the process. She begins to question all that she has been trained to believe and steadily grows to accept the painteras truths as her own. Alendrea finds herself and the love of friends she never had within her fatheras fortress walls. After reluctantly delivering the last of the young painteras secrets to her father and king, she finds herself caught between her fatheras ideals and her own ideals and newfound loyalties. In the end she must choose between the easy path of doing King Avelecas bidding or to hold to the ideals she has accepted for herself despite the seemingly impossible obstacles she would have to face in order to save those and the country she loves, the cost of her own life at stake.