Jezebel Virtua is torn between two worlds. The daughter of an Egyptian slave and a former greek soldier, she was raised as a servant in Prince Calix's household, ridiculed for her ebony skin and yet prized for her Grecian blue eyes. Her greatest hope for survival was to wield silence as her sword and shield, that is until King Ramses comes to pay homage to the Spartan prince. To maintain the peace between the two nations, every year an ancient exchange is wrought: ten noble Greeks for ten noble Egyptians. If one of them should die, their soul tied counterpart would die as well, so there could be no chance of foul play.

The subject of constant cruelty since childhood, Jezza is happy to know that this is one misfortune she is lucky to miss out on : that is until Calix does the unthinkable, and passes her off as a high born lady of pure pedigree. Jezza is forced to take the place of a fierce warrior by the name of Adom, half brother to Ramses himself, their connection sealed in blood.

At the Egyptian court, Jezebel quickly becomes a favourite of the Pharaoh, prized for her spitfire tongue and her unique allure. But Ramses is as cruel as he is beautiful, and she fears that once he finds out the truth of her heritage, he will have her drawn and quartered, and a bloody war between their two nations all but be assured.

And then there is the issue of the soul tie. Jezza soon realizes it is more than a simple guarantee of mutually assured destruction: it is ancient magick, the lifeline of the gods. And just as the Egyptian and Greek pantheon of deities are mirror images of each other, so are Adom and Jezebel, forced to see each other nightly in odd, ritualistic dreams, the other's face engraved in every mirror, pool and reflective service. And then, little by little, the line where Adom ends and Jezza begins becomes even more blurred; in the sunlight, he becomes her shadow, peeling away from her form, with a life and mind of his own, and beneath the cover of darkness, she can feel his touch upon her skin, the whispering of invisible wings.

As madness and war loom on the horizon, Jezza and Adom must find their way back to each other if they are ever to sever the soul tie. For if they do not, they face a fate worse than death--chaos, pure and complete.