Ever since the Queen mysteriously disappeared and the King went mad five years ago,eleven-year-old Princess Charlie has lived a wild and mostly unsupervised life in thecountry of Qualeuntil now.

With the discovery of an unfinished letter in the Queenshandwriting, Charlie embarks on a quest to find her mother and save the kingdomfrom a revolution.

With Tobias, the gardeners boy, by her side, every step closer to theQueen pulls Charlie deeper into an entangling web of lies and secretsas twisted asthe dark castlewhere nothing is as it seems.