Imagine a world where on your seventeenth birthday you find out what Assignment you receive for the rest of your life, from which there is no appeal. And Naurea, the daughter of one of the richer families receives an Assignment to the Isle of the Dead, as a nun condemned to silence for the rest of her life, serving the Inquisitors interrogating prisoners of the Magical Inquisition.
A world where an alliance of politics, magic and religion has resulted in tyranny, where Inquisitors fly on dragons, and the strangest boy is imprisoned.... Who may be a god, And now what?