Prince Leif and Princess Briar are children when the one-eyed unicorn comes. It takes their father's life before it vanishes once more. Grief takes their mother. Leif grows into an ineffectual leader, allowing his advisor to make all his decisions for him; Briar refuses to let despair destroy her, and spends every moment training for the one-eyed unicorn's return. When Briar's childhood friend, a peasant boy named Selim, has a prophetic vision of...