When the Queen of Adah dies, her daughters battle each other for the right to become the next queen. These battles are known as the Princess Wars. The outcome is always the same. Only one survives.Lila Marie Haran grew up knowing her destiny lay in one of two places. When her mother, the Queen of Adah died, she would either ascend to her mother's throne, or end up in an unmarked grave on a barren hill known as the Cemetery of Would Be Queens. As the youngest of the queen's four daughters, Lila figures she has little chance of winning the battle for her mother's throne, a battle known in her homeland of Adah as the Princess Wars. Her oldest sister, Bedonna, is as big and as strong and as skilled with a sword as any man. Plus, she has the support of the palace guard. Her second sister, Salisha, is blond and beautiful and looks just like their beloved mother. Her third sister, Iderra, is a great intellectual and has the support of the palace scholars. Lila figures her best chance, her only chance, of winning the throne is to head west and gain the support of General Dacus and the Army of the West. Problem is General Dacus is no long in control. A powder witch has taken control of the Army of the West. To make matters worse, a man from the Far Lands is there. He wants to take a princess back with him and as far as he's concerned, Lila is as good a choice as any.

Low Campbell, ex-cop, private detective, and mermaid, has been offered a job that she can't turn down, protecting the city's oldest and most powerful vampire, from an even older and more powerful vampire, a man known simply as the Count. As powerful as the Count is, he's never had to face a queen of the sea.Low Campbell, ex-cop, private detective, and mermaid, has been offered a job that she can't turn down. Titus Hawthorn, the city's oldest and most powerful vampire, wants Low to protect him from an even older and more powerful vampire, a man known simply as the Count. The Count gives Low forty-eight hours to find someone that's been around as long as he has, someone that can amuse him, otherwise he will kill Titus and another one of Low's friends, a mermaid named Savanna. Not only does Low have to contend with the Count, who just happens to be the world's oldest vampire, she has to contend with a fireball throwing elf, cops that keep shooting her in the stomach, her human boyfriend's boss, who thinks that he should dump her, and her arch nemesis, a siren that wants to steal her treasure.

Since her mother's death, Lila Marie Haran has avoided taking part in the Princess Wars. But some things can't be avoided forever, and whether Lila's ready or not, judgment day is coming. If Lila hopes to survive, she will have to master her powers and become the woman the prophet's wrote about long ago, the woman known as Destiny's Queen.Jonas has just lost wife, so he turns to some comfort of solitude by taking a walk in the forest. The forest is familiar to him, but the creature which he discovers lying on the forest path is not. Jonas, through his grief, is spurred into life as he sets off on a mission to do something for the creature that he couldn't for Jolene, that is save it. As he searches the forest frantically for help, all he finds is setbacks which seems to push him further and further off the track to salvation and redemption. With people unable or unwilling to help him, and even going through a chance meeting with his recently deceased wife, will Jonas be able to save the dolphin?