In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.

Nature is out of balance in the human kingdom. The sun hasn't shone in years. The crops are failing, and families are starving. Worst yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The people's survival hangs in the balance. To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and the destinies of two seventeen year-old girls become entwined when they are chosen to go on a dangerous and unheard of journey to Taninli, the city of the Fairy Queen....