Three birds have arrived bearing royal summons for three sisters. It seems, for some reason, that they are to visit a neighboring kingdom's ball. The sisters, three near-peasants convinced they've received these letters by mistake, accept the invitation as they have little to lose. The last thing they possibly could have expected was to be launched into a months-long gauntlet of courtship where fourteen women compete to win a prize...and the prize is the crown Prince's hand in marriage. Only, they're beginning to suspect the Crown Prince is a vampire. There's but one way to find out. (A 'Three Sisters' story)