In a city beneath stone, a forbidden faith is about to raise its head once more...

House Melrae is a family that keeps a deadly secret locked behind heavily carved doors. They worship a goddess outlawed centuries ago, alone except for a handful of families in an entire city of drow who worship the spider goddess Lloth. When one of their allied houses falls, House Melrae is promoted to the ruling council of the city--and Imryne, their third daughter, is sent to the council as the representative of her mother.

The only way Imryne's house will survive being on the council is to take control of it, and to do so she must use all of her house's resources and alliances to destroy the houses above her. She will use all of the cunning that her has inherited from her mother to combat enemies outside of her house, inside of it, and even inside her own mind.

She carries within her a madness that had nearly killed her several times, and now she suffers dreams, dreams which cannot be anything more than the workings of an overwrought mind but somehow keep coming true...

Book One: War Child
Book Two: The Lady of Pain
Book Three: Stone Sky
Book Four: The Heirophant of Fanaedar