After being betrayed by those she thought she trusted and finding out everything she'd been told her entire life was a life, Poppy is stuck with nowhere to turn.
Poppy has been told since she was a child that the fate of her people relies on her sacrifice as the Maiden. She's had faith in that, even though no one will tell her exactly what it means, and she begins to question her role once she meets her mysterious new guard, Hawke.