Delilah, spymaster of Nadir City, once delighted in idle cruelties as she held all of the city's people under her thumb. Until one day she saw the desolation of her work and walked away.

For four years, she now lived in Stonetown, an oasis of community, working to be a better woman, but Nadir threatens war with her new home.

To stop it, Delilah is faced with a cruel choice:

Remain the woman of peace or become The Knowing Doll again, abandoning the moral progress for which she's struggled.