Overview
Arden and Paisley Porter are orphans.
They have been ever since their parents disappeared years ago. Now teenagers, they are traveling to their country's capital city, Ironhollow.
They join a pair of sisters, but have little time to befriend them before the city is invaded by hostile foreigners.
In a race against time, they find others along the way, enemies and friends, in their search for Sir Prescott, the only man believed powerful enough to save the city. But is he the man they think he is?
Along the way, they will make some startling realizations about those they think are friends, and learn that the upper class is not so different.