Anastasia is the princess no one needs: the fourth daughter born to an emperor without a son, and the only royal lacking a magical gift.Until she collides with a young Cossack rebel, changing both their lives forever.Damien is taken from everything he knows and raised as a ward of the Romanovs.Anastasia develops a strange kind of magic shared only by the Black Monk Rasputin.While her power grows in secret, boosted by forbidden contact with Damien, Anastasia makes a mistake with terrible consequences.Fate grants her a single chance to set it right? but saving what she lost may cost everything she loves.