Princess Aria ran through the secret passages of Castle Thornwood, her nightgown soaked with her mother's blood. Behind her, she heard screams—the palace guard being slaughtered by her uncle's mercenaries. "Run!" her mother had gasped with her final breath. "Run and do not look back!" So Aria ran. Through passages her brothers had shown her during childhood games of hide and seek, through the catacombs beneath the castle, through the sewers that emptied into the river. She ran until her feet bled and her lungs burned. And when she finally collapsed in a dark alley in the lower city, watching the castle burn against the night sky, Princess Aria died. In her place, a new person was born—Ari, the orphan thief, with only one purpose: revenge...