A hundred years ago, the seven Great Houses were forced to unite to defeat an invader. Each House possessed strange abilities like controlling waters, commanding fire, and detecting lies, and these powers were used to stop and repel the invader. Defeating the invaders, however, did not occur before most of House Ravenwood was destroyed, its family almost wiped out. Leaders of the Great Houses now believe Ravenwood to be powerless. Lady Selene, the heir to Ravenwood, know that this is not the case. The firstborn daughter of Ravenwood is entrusted with the secret that Ravenwoods continue to walk through other people's dreams, manipulating them, extracting information and causing death when necessary.
Lady Selene has trained her entire life to master this family inheritance. Her mother, a disciplined strategist and assassin, plans on restoring Ravenwood to its former glory by inflicting a terrible vengeance on the other Great Houses that abandoned Ravenwood in its time of need. To do that, she has recruited the invaders, who stand poised to return as allies of Ravenwood, throwing the continent in the fires of war.
Lady Selene is entrusted by her mother to kill Lord Damien, a Great House leader and the only one who could unite them against the impending threat of the invaders. When Selene realizes the role she must play in this stratagem, she faces a dilemma. On the one hand she wishes to protect her family and her secret. Killing Lord Damien means ascending to the title of Lady Ravenwood, and protecting her younger sisters from the taxing demands that dream walking require. On the other, her mother's plans will cause the destruction of everything she knows by bringing war back to the Great Houses. Not killing Lord Damien will spell the doom of Ravenwood. Selene is therefore faced with an impossible choice, with a price so high it may not be worth paying.
Fans of fantasy will appreciate the descriptive world-building and the tangled plot set in motion by Selene's mother.
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