What is the difference between protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty? In a country where magic is banned, Audra Darnell trains to become the most fearsome warrior in all of Brennia. At the Naturalist Academy, where students learn to ensure magical wielders do not once again rise to power, Audra practices relentlessly, fighting for the place as the highest-ranking warrior and fighting for the power to destroy the wielders who dare to stay in her kingdom. She has a score to settle and she will not rest until the world is safe from the monsters who stole everything from her. When a resistance begins to form against the law decreeing magic forbidden, Audra must travel to the neighboring country of Keenox where forces are said to be gathering. Will she be able to collect the information needed to condemn the sympathizing kingdom or will she discover more than she bargained for? What is the price of vengeance?