The time has come for the next Gathering. Every ten years, girls that are suspected to have an otherworldly power join the generation bred in the Court to fight into a ranking of strength, ruthlessness and power. Cecilia Olsen is fifteen years old. She's just another girl until she disappears, never to be seen again--or so they think. Even so, the case gets major attention from the police and soon they find themselves closer than ever to discovering the secret Court. But what if Cecilia doesn't want to be found? What if all the police have been working for is pointless?

'Who I am is none of your concern. But if you must, call me Kallis.' Kallis is lost and forgotten. In her case, this is literal. She has lived in the lost palace her whole life, underground, in the middle of the largest forest in the Kingdom. The twelve lords control her, and she has no one to talk to now Alina's gone. That is, until the fourteen girls arrive, and Kallis learns the secrets she was hidden from in the first place. Nikita is a lord's son, detective in his spare time. He's solved everything, from a missing wallet to a mass murder. But there's one thing that'll make him feel accomplished--the princess of mist. The young princess who vanished, who should be dead. Kallis and Nikita are drawn together with a common goal: find the Princess, missing for fifteen years, once searched for by every man, woman and child--none of which ever found her. But she's somewhere out there, and someone's got to find her...