Only weeks after Ivy's return to her true home in the Winter Court, she finds herself thrown into life as a royal with a new fiance she can't stand. Even worse, the only person she loves, the one person she is forbidden to love, Barrett Forbes, is her personal guard, which makes getting to know Arden, her Unseelie fiance just a little bit awkward.

Ivy's life spirals into more chaos when she discovers her human best friend, Jules, has journeyed to faerie to find her and is now being used against her. Together, Ivy and Jules must trust each other, carefully choosing every move in a dark game that would pit them against each other.

Meanwhile, the Winter Queen's sister has escaped from her cell in the castle's dungeons to form a dangerous alliance that could destroy the Winter Realm and all Ivy holds dear.