Machiavellian is chosen as a candidate for the Divination, a series of trials that will determine Bloodrose's next queen. Along the way, she discovers the horrors of the queendom, and it is up to her to choose the outcome of the world as she battles a greater evil, with the help of her newfound abilities and allies.

A group of outcasts attempts to bomb their high school through an elaborate plan of trickery, knowledge, and mischief.