In the Hollows orphanage, all of the girls were abandoned there because there's something marvelously peculiar about them all. Aria Winters doesn't know what her curse is, but something doesn't feel right. Surrounded by the dead and the damned, she's determined to find out what put her there and how to escape. But the omniscient eyes of the glass-hearted Head Mistress are on her, and someone wants her dead before she can find a way out. This is a tale told in a dark, fairy-tale world that is flooded with passion, wickedness and enchanting wishes.