You've been locked in a tower for one whole year, an outsider to your kingdom after your despicable father—the king— committed murder, and you were blamed for it. Utterly unbeknownst to you that the kingdom hates you and thinks it was you that committed the crime, you haven't seen human life in an entire year. That is.. until a mysteriously handsome guard named Rylan Thorne comes to guard your tower from the inside on the days leading up to your 18th birthday. He despises you. But you have no idea why.