For talented young medico, March, life is far from a fairy tale. She’s a serious student of the healing arts, and her skills are in high demand in River’s Turn. A beast made of shadows is roaming the countryside, capable of destroying entire cottages and vanishing with every soul and scrap of metal within. As the beast begins to close in, the township withdraws behind the stout walls of the Del’Terre manor house, where they will make their stand. Inside, March and her family encounter not just the bright and challenging Del’Terre siblings, but mysterious travellers with stories of phantom Kingdoms, missing royals, and a daring plan for the beast.

 

But as she works, March grows a sense so keen it’s enervating, and must concede life may not be as cut and dried as she once believed. In fact, it may take an uncommon sense to save them all.