Penny is an ugly princess born to a family known for its beautiful offspring. To protect the royal bloodline's reputation, the king proclaims her dead since birth and locks her away in the castle cellar.
Unbeknown to most, including herself, Penny has a gift: She can see the darkness within one's mind through touch.
Everett is a dragon prince whose land is plagued by a deadly sickness in the form of black mist, capable of turning any fairy being it touches into stone. He comes to Penny's kingdom seeking the one princess foretold to end the darkness. The choice is clear: It's either Penny's cynical eldest sister, Tatiana, or her kind elder sister, Sarah, because Penny does not exist-not officially.
But a twist of fate and Penny's gift bring her to Everett's attention, and she takes on a secret identity to aid him to trace the origin of the black mist. What follows is a journey into a dark magical world within the minds of the corrupt, ruled by demons that plague on the dark aspects of the human psyche.
With the clock fast ticking, the prince must discover who the chosen one is in order to defeat the black mist before the mist turns him to stone and spreads to the rest of the world. But there are those who will do anything to keep Penny's identity hidden. With the odds stacked against Penny, will her true identity be revealed or forever remain hidden?
