The fractured Royal Family of King Albert of Torrif has been brutally massacred and all wives - past and present - and contentious heirs have been slaughtered. Only the out of favor Prince Jermyn, his younger sister Katheryn, have managed to escape. Meanwhile their disinherited sister, Jazzel, living in the Kingdom of Amberwine with her husband Donald Demontfort, has to come home and sort out the mess. So with family politics and intrigues to deal with and a mysterious vapor that is terrorizing the kingdom, Jazzel has her work cut out of her.