Thora has lost more than her childhood. A coup took her parents, her home, and her birthright. Once called the Little Queen by her admirers, she hides in the Dragonwood Forests among the lowest of her kingdom's low. Her losses are only the beginning, and the royal family will not be the last victims. An ancient evil has awoken, stirred by the crumbling of the order of things. It comes to claim the Little Queen and her people in their greatest moment of weakness. All that stands between the dark and the spark are the lost and forgotten. Will they rise to the challenge?