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 the country of Qualeuntil now. With the discovery of an unfinished letter in the Queens handwriting, Charlie embarks on a quest to find her mother and save the kingdom from a revolution. With Tobias, the gardeners boy, by her side, every step closer to the Queen pulls Charlie deeper into an entangling web of lies and secretsas twisted as the dark castlewhere nothing is as it seems.