Despite warnings from family and friends, Scona Tinay enrolls in Silencers Academy. To escape a life of poverty and hardship and ensure a stable future, Scona sets her sights on the Silencers, where the students earn a wage. She soon learns her fellow students are cutthroat and the training regimen brutal.

As Scona heads deeper into her training, she begins to question the role of Silencers, as well as the "madness" she is supposed to destroy. Each question she asks brings her under suspicion. Discovering the only person she can trust is herself, Scona must sacrifice all she knows to ensure a future for those she loves.

Unable to change the culture of her world, where all mental ailments are deemed dangerous, she must embrace all manner of skill and courage to protect her own father...

Someone she is being trained to kill.