Kala is the oldest daughter of Lord Kotak, and lives on the country estate with her siblings Niobe and Peri. Yet they hardly ever see their father, and the children never leave the manor.
She doesn't know everything her father does. She doesn't know why the servant Cannon has a frozen face and hasn't aged in twenty years, looking younger than his old friend and boss Kotak.
Finally, they get the chance to accompany their father to a coronation of the new king. But circumstances remain strained between them.
Kotak and Cannon are secretly part of a cadre of Followers of Doomba. They plot to someday take control, with Kotak next in line to the throne.
Years ago, Cannon and Kotak learned from an oracle that a son born of Kotak's daughters would bring death and destruction to his enterprise.
The oracle hinted that such a grandson would be the tiger of light destined to destroy Doomba, their evil dark lord. Kotak has done everything he could to break the oracle's prophecy.