Nineteen-year-old Veronica has been the anchor in her fractured family ever since her mother's passing. With her father lost to grief and a younger brother who is bullied at school, she shoulders the weight of a love that's slipping away. When Veronica tells Leo a bedtime story about a lonely, cursed prince trapped in a castle of shadows, she thinks it's just a tale to help him understand the struggles of their alcoholic father. But that night, the prince from her story begins to haunt her dreams. As reality and fantasy blur, Veronica ends up trapped in the world she created, caught between the pull of the past and the faint hope of healing, she learns that some curses can only be broken from within-and that the strength to write her own story lies in her own hands.