General Isla is going to save the world and make it her own - if she can keep Prince Zeus out of the way. Isla's life is driven by two goals: ruling the world along with her powerful adoptive mother, Candace, and finding her birth family to understand who she really is. But at every turn is her political rival: the charming, irritating, and head-over-heels-in-love-with-her Zeus. To secure her power, she saved the woken kingdom, Bearra, from destruction. Now she's wrangling control of its circle of young leaders - from the untippable Queen Dawn and resurrected empath Relia, to the pirate warrior Sierra Reed; not to mention almost-terrifying Maya Nova and her powerful lover Teddy. Lire will be returning to end the Fairy War, and if Isla can't get these people in line, there's no way they can win. Through all of this, Zeus's constant admissions of love, blended with his attempts to topple her and Candace, are confusing and distracting. So when Zeus and Isla realise they can be more powerful together, they hatch a plan for an alliance. That is, if their growing real feelings don't get in the way of their fake partnership. In discovering the secrets of a mysterious nutcracker, Isla finds that the truth of her heritage may be the key to winning the final battle - or the key to losing everything.