Gabriel and Annabel are bound together for all eternity. One vampire, the other, ghost. When one night, Gabriel happens upon the vampire that turned him into a creature of the night, he is given a quest that will end in a true-death if he chooses to defy her. Gabriel's maker cannot hold onto her true form any longer. Her face shifts and her gown of smoke has developed a life of its own. Not to mention, she is insufferably lonely. Gabriel must enter a dark kingdom, through a magic mirror on a lake bed, and find her a husband. But in this kingdom, men have stumps where their hands once were. And there are stories of cursed Princesses who ensnare hearts with one quick look...