Princess Aria watched helplessly as her uncle murdered her family and seized the throne. Forced to flee in the dead of night, she disguises herself as a common thief and joins the notorious Shadow Wolves, a band of outlaws operating in the kingdom capital. As "Ari the street rat," she learns the art of survival, deception, and combat. But when she falls for the charismatic leader of the Shadow Wolves, who has his own reasons for hating the royal family, Aria must choose between revealing her true identity and losing his trust forever, or keeping her secret and watching her kingdom fall into tyranny.