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 Grace Blakely has learned the horrible truth about her mother's murder. It wasn't the Scarred Man like she had spent the last three years believing. It was her. She killed her own mother, but it was an accident. She was trying to save her mother from another man - who really was sent to kill her by Adria's prime minister - and shot her mother instead. Now, she has to live with the horrible truth along with the fact that Ms. Connely - her grandfather's chief of staff - shot the prime minister of Adria. But there was a reason for that. Not that anyone is telling her the whole truth. There is a society that is over a thousand years old, that is made up of all the founding women of Adria's ancestors. Grace's mother was part of it and Ms. Connely is part of it too and because of her mother, Grace is now being brought into the fold. 
 While that is going on, Grace's older brother Jamie comes back from West Point along with his friend Spence. Jamie has been worried about her, but she doesn't want to speak to him because for the last three years he has known the truth about what she has done. So to avoid him she goes to a party. However, she can't outrun her problems even at this party. Spence follows her and kisses her, but it isn't what she thought it would be and ends up running away. And runs right into Alexei who saw the whole thing. Which leads to a fight between the two boys. Thankfully it is broken up and both guys go their separate ways. Until Spence's body is found the next morning and Alexei is the prime suspect. 
 Okay, so I have a love hate relationship with this book. The first part of this book was slow and almost repetitive with Grace whining about the pain of killing her own mother and being not one hundred percent sure if what she sees is real or not. However, when Alexei shows up things get interesting and they get interesting fast.