When Ombria's prince, Royce Greve, breathes his lastin palace rooms high above the cityhe leaves his young son and mistress at the mercy of his ancient and powerful great-aunt, Domina Pearl. Meanwhile, in a dreamlike underworld peopled by Ombria's ghosts, a sorceress weaves her spells and brews her potions, never revealing her real faceor true heart. And somewhere in between, the struggle to rule the whole of Ombriaboth its light and shadowswill rest in the hands of those whose fractured lives align like the lost pieces of a magical puzzle.