Lucia is working for a clan in order to pay off a family debt. She is not treated very well and seems to be losing a part of herself the longer she stays there. When she meets Bane, he brings a ray of sunshine into her life. He soon devises a plan to pay off the debt she owes and to free her from the life she has known for the past several years.
Bane has gone to Edinburgh to escape a past he doesn't want to remember. He joins the Ludus Caledonia to earn enough money to buy Lucia's freedom. But others keep challenging those plans. Will Ban be able to free Lucia from her misery?
After Lor's Village is attacked, he leaves everything behind, including a relationship that has just started. He wants to avenge the the deaths of his friends and family and decides to find the Ludus Caledonia, an elite fighting school. He will put in the time learning to fight and when ready destroy the people that took everything away from him.
Isabail is devastated when she thinks she has lost Lor when his village is attacked. Knowing that they must do something to protect themselves, she talks her father in hiring a fighter from the Ludus Caledonia. Isabail can't believe it when she sees Lor there. She comes up with a plan to ensure their future....her father will hire Lor to be the one fighter to protect her people.
Lor still wants his revenge on the clan that he destroyed his village. But will his revenge destroy his relationship with Isabail?
