Xianlan, the heiress to the Wuzung Duchy. She falls in love with a visiting noble from Eflua – her courtly life of peace is disrupted by domestic affairs, the ghosts that haunt her, and the bond imposed onto her by her lover without her knowledge. A pair of star-crossed lovers, damned by fate and the target of schemes that wish to see them fall. She has a destiny to follow, and it seems her death was sealed early on.