The land of Terre d' Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good. and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phedre nó Delaunay is a woman born with a scarlet mote in her left eye and sold into indentured servitude as a child. Her bond was purchased by a nobleman, and he was the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever