Three years after the curse on Lumatere was lifted, Froi has been taken roughly and lovingly in hand by the Guard sworn to protect the royal family, and has learned to control his quick temper with a warrior's discipline. But when he is sent on a secretive mission to the kingdom of Charyn, nothing could have prepared him for what he finds in its surreal royal court. It is in Charyn that he will discover there is a song sleeping in his blood, and the time has come to listen.