Driven by a restlessness whispered in the wind, one young woman has no idea how far she'll go to understand her own heart when a gift of magic seeds sweeps her from her earthy forest home to the grimy depths of a city haunted by hunger and hope. After her best friend Pady departs on another trading trip with no promise of when he'll return, quiet Tula Just longs to follow him. When her brothers present her with a birthday gift of three wish-granting seeds, Tula wishes for escape, beauty and grace, and then dismisses the seeds as folly-until she finds herself a woman transformed. Gowns and gold spilling about her, she embarks on a journey that takes her out of the forests and into a duplicitous world where a selfish suitor, a power-mad prince, and a palace full of malicious courtiers make her realize that even simple wishes have consequences.