The otherworldly prison of Asperfell holds only the darkest and most dangerous of mages. Lost among them is the true heir to the kingdom of Tiralaen. To prevent a civil war, an aristocrat's sharp-tongued daughter must brave the magical gate that separates Asperfell from her world. And so, she plunges into a world of caged madmen and demented spirits, of dark magic and cryptic whispers... and of a bleak and broken prince with no interest in being rescued.