Death only begins the adventure. After Targa get killed reviving a long dead god, she finds that she must work off her mortal sins. Dedicating herself to the service of Gedimimas, they set off across the universe to restore his power. With them travels her new husband, the dead Phoenix Emperor, who has his own host of sins to work off. To complicate matters, when she’d been alive, Targa had signed a standardized dragonrider contract, one that had specified on her death, she was obligated to work for the Red Lady, the goddess of lies and deceit. In fact, all her dragon rider sisters had signed this contract. Seeing this injustice before her, Targa swears to take on the Red Lady, freeing her sisters from their eternal servitude, even if that takes wreaking chaos across the heavens themselves.