Eilin Vanne is First Ranger for the flourishing town of Wayhaven which has been haunted by mysteriously unsafe roads for the past two years since the outbreak of a war in the West. Harrowed by the deaths of two men she held dear and facing opposition from those in power in regards to her investigation on the matter, she encounters on chance infamous battlemage, Trystan of Rhonwen, a man who carries secrets that are deeply entwined with Eilin's past. The two embark on a pursuit for the origin of a strange curse, Eilin's foster father's puzzling demise and a shadowy figure named the Lord of the Pale who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.