Weeks before her 23rd birthday and what should have been her ensuing wedding, Liviana Peat is wrongfully accused of treacherous crimes against men in her conservative community of Heimoor and is sentenced to death. When a mysterious stranger intervenes and offers to buy her from her father and the town instead, he spares her life but condemns her to exile from the only home she's even known. Still reeling from her trauma, the mysterious stranger introduces her to his traveling companions, collectively known as The Dark Band. She has no choice but to travel with this group of men on the next phases of their journey. 

But Liviana is keeping a secret, one that she feels might hold more danger for her if the men find out. As they continue on, Liviana begins to heal and grows closer to the men with each passing day, but darker forces and magical mysteries are at play: there is a violent death in the woods and dark myths are whispered to be wandering about. When Liviana and the Dark Band stumble upon something straight out of folklore, they will do whatever they can to survive.