When our heroine Ophelia is promoted to Vice-storyteller by Farouk, the ancestral Nature of Pole, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the public limelight and her special gift is revealed to all. She knows how to read the top secret history of objects, and there may be no greater threat towards the nefarious denizens of her icy used house than this. Beneath the fantastic rafters of Pole’s capital, Citaceleste, she discovers that this just person she might be able to trust is Thorn, her enigmatic fiancé. As one after another influential courtier disappears, Ophelia once again finds herself unintentionally implicated within an investigation that may lead her to find out beyond Pole’s many illusions to the heart of the formidable truth.