The Old King is dead, and a teenage boy takes the throne. Claude was crafted to be perfect: unflinching and unkillable. Still, whispers of a coup begin to stir in the capital. Claude doesn’t care. What troubles him instead is this eccentric endtowner girl his age who just tried to kill him. A twisted love blossoms there on the precipice of his reign’s collapse.

Across time and sea, Annamarie Kavesta dreams of drowning. The world cannot withstand the second death of a king, yet who is she but nobody? Small, weak, and almost too feverish to hold a needle or pen, she boards a train still across that time and sea to change what she can. If Claude dies, the world is fated to end again. If she does nothing, he will. Unfortunately, doing something means losing things: the girl she loves, her cushy life as a noble, her future as a human at all.