After the Duchess of the Lake found her Surrogate Violet and her niece's Companion Ash together the two managed to escape, with a little help from the scion of the house and the Electress's Lady-in-Waiting. The Royalty have shut down the Jewel to find Ash and Violet as they try to escape the Duchess of the Lake.
Violet managed to survive several months as the Duchess of the Lake's surrogate, even fell in love with the young man serving the House as Companion. When the Electress's Lady-in-Waiting Lucien gives her a chance to escape Violet uses the opportunity to get her best friend and lover out too.
Though Lucien is furious at two additional escapees Violet refuses to join Lucien's rebellion without Ash and Raven. Their escape through the rings of the city exposes Violet to Ash's past, both as a Companion and his family's home. With a little help from their friends in the Black Key Society including Garnet of the House of the Lake, the trio reaches the Farm and their protected destination.
In the Farm Violet, Ash, and Raven find a new home at a farmhouse named the White Rose. The woman caring for the house is Sil, a former surrogate who managed to survive the birth of twins and escape to the Farm. In surviving Sil discovered the Auguaries which the surrogates were trained so extensively to use were perversions of an ability to connect with and use the four elements. She plans to teach Violet to control the elements and bring about the end of the Royalty.
More practice and Raven's near-death bring a connection to all four elements which leads Violet to propose a plan - unite the surrogates against the Royalty and fight them at home in the Jewel. Lucien accepts the plan as head of the Black Key and work begins. Ash begins to chafe at his restrictions and jumps at the opportunity to become more and more involved. When the society is betrayed Violet discovers time is running out - the Auction is moved forward six months with much of the preparation left. And Violet is stunned to discover who the Duchess of the Lake has taken as her replacement.
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