The Kingdom of Pyre has been held in the iron grasp of King Sirx for the past ninety-eight years. The rich citizens of the Upper District gather once a year for the Executions, where the poor and starving criminals of the Lower Dominion are brutally killed by the District's genetically-engineered Executioners. Syren Evetrill is one such Executioner, made with the genes of the nightingale and the wolf. Designed to be a killer, to feel nothing, she serves the kingdom without question. That is, until Syssic Varen, a fellow Executioner, changes everything in the Ninety-Eighth Executions and opens...