Anastasia is the fourth daughter born to an emperor with no son — a princess no one expected and the only royal lacking a magical gift. Everything changes when she collides with a young Cossack rebel, altering both their lives. Damien is taken from everything he knows and raised as a ward of the Romanovs. Anastasia develops a strange kind of magic shared only by the Black Monk Rasputin. While her power grows in secret, boosted by forbidden contact with Damien, she makes a mistake with terrible consequences. Fate grants her a single chance to set it right, but saving what she lost may cost everything she loves.