A darkness seems to hang over the lands of Conall, slowly but surely growing in strength with each passing year. It all comes to a head when the twelve daughters of King Muir begin to disappear each night. None will admit where they go, and the only clue is their shoes; new in the evening, tattered and torn by morning. When no one can stop the disappearances, Ailsa–lady-in-waiting to the youngest princess–volunteers to try and solve the mystery, or she and her peers will pay the consequences for failing to watch over their charges. Armed with nothing but her gift of Fae-sight, Ailsa ventures forth on a quest to free…