Tiergan and Liam once promised their mother that they would protect their younger half-brother, Keefe, with their lives. Their childish vow soon becomes reality, however, when Keefe's father is murdered and Keefe's rival brother, Slone, takes the throne, making a promise of his own: to kill Keefe before he reaches his twelfth birthday. The brothers flee from the castle in the middle of the night with Bernt, the late king's middle son, unexpectedly...