While sixteen-year-old Princess Tika has all the trappings of a princess, the misfit teen who can see and talk to faeries is trapped by the stuffy life of a royal and her father's expectations of perfection.

What would His Majesty say if she told him she can see and talk to Death?

Tika fears the worst thing looming on her horizon is a loveless marriage arranged by her father and vindictive aunt, but when tragedy strikes the castle, the first of many secrets are revealed and marriage becomes the least of Tika's worries.

As a result, traitors insidiously infiltrate the castle, the royal guard, even Tika's own family and she is stripped of the only home and family she's ever known, forcing her to go on the run.

And while the pseudo princess learns more about her true heritage and unique gifts this heritage bestows on her, she's hunted by an evil sorcerer's assassins and his living and undead creatures of forbidden dark magic.

Now the life of stuffy gowns and boring balls Tika so desperately wanted to escape, she desperately wishes she could have back.