When Rose said she'd never let anything happen to Dimitri, she didn't realize how soon she'd have to prove her words. Finding herself in a situation she didn't anticipate, Rose struggles to reconcile her future and her past.

After Spokane Rose is perilously close to breaking. Discovered in her bed, Dimitri is forced to leave the Academy. Let down by almost everyone she knows and cares for, pulled between duty and love, the path ahead isn't easy. And just when things look like they're getting better life has a way of throwing up other challenges. Will they get their happy ever after?