The world of Aeldun is frozen. Spring has not shown her face for a century, and mankind has turned its back on her. Behind the high walls of Winloryn, magic has become nothing more than a fairytale. Alchemical miracles and clockwork marvels keep the city warm, the gardens growing, and the people contentedly quiet. Beyond the city, where few dare tread, Jacob Haskins and his dearest companion, Lady Fox, endeavor to return Spring to Aeldun. When the pair aren't tending to the shivering forest folk, they move among the people of Winloryn, guiding the hand of science without revealing their clandestine pasts. An unexpected sign of Spring in the distant mountains finds its way to Jacob and Fox, whilst unnatural events in the underworks of Winloryn begin to overtake the artificial gardens. Behind it all the specter of a long-dormant evil looms, an evil only Jacob, the Last Druid of Aeldun, can face.