Although she doesn't know it, Adi is in deep peril. She's inadvertently made an enemy of a mysterious stranger named Coal, who is just waiting for the chance to take revenge on her and her family.
Innocent Adi is only annoyed when she's entrusted with taking her pampered younger twin brothers to safety from India to Europe. As a girl of mixed British and Indian heritage, she's used to being pushed to one side. But then, Coal moves in, kidnaps the twins, and forces Adi into a terrible bargain of silence and a deadly game.
Adi now knows what real trouble is. Her only clue is the watch full of riddles she has been given. Cutting her hair and dressing in the uniform of a dead solider, she makes her way across a continent darkened by war, encountering allies and enemies, from a handsome drunkard to a murderous priest. In a story that reads like an epic legend, Adi must find in herself more courage than any boy, in a desperate bid to save her brothers' lives and her own.
