On the day of her awakening, eighteen-year-old noble girl Leah Estland touches the crystal and dark light erupts from her palm. Overnight, she falls from duchess heir to the church's most wanted heretic. Her father her name from the family tree in front of everyone. The Holy Knights close in from all sides.She flees to the Forbidden Graveyard, where her blood awakens the thousand-year-old undead knight Sebastian. He kneels before her, calling her master. Through his memories, she discovers the truth: the Holy Church has woven a thousand-year lie. The necromancy they branded as evil was once the power that protected the world.Now she carries the memory fragments of the first necromancer, Velarian. She escapes the dark castle of the genius heir Derek, who wants to study her like a specimen. She saves a werewolf cub in the Death Forest, earning the blood oath of the exiled wolf prince Cain. And the youngest Holy Knight Commander, Aaron, begins to doubt the faith he once served.
