SOMETIMES, THE PROMISE BREAKS YOU.

Raena Barren might be the second-to-highest rank in the Soma spy network, but she is still powerless to save Garen Cards. His coma hasn’t ended, and he still sleeps in the lion’s den, where Apex could kill him whenever they please.

But when Raena gets help from an unexpected source, she finds herself caught in another whirlwind romance. At the same time, she learns more about the Portent twins’ troubled past--and she is presented with three impossible tasks. First, to cure Jaen Portent of the darkness that haunts him. Second, to protect a stranger from harm. And the third is to help Shenni Null escape Soma, so that she can join Garen as they both flee the kingdom.

Yet freeing her friends is no longer enough; Raena also wants to make Apex pay. To destroy them, she’ll need to leave Soma herself, something only a Foxglove is permitted to do. But this final rank of Thorn is also the cruelest, and the rules demand that Raena do the unthinkable. If she crosses that line, Raena will have a chance against Apex… but it will cost her the only man that she loves.