With Laran in autumn hibernation, it is Andarta, the autumn queen's responsibility to find the missing children.
Having negotiated custody of Prince Autumn and the human boy, Lord Bracken keeps them hidden. While revealing the truth about the Prince of Autumn's dead mother. Lord Bracken tells Prince Autumn the kidnapping is a distraction to hide something bigger. Persuading the Prince of autumn to take valuable information to his father King Autumn.Prince Spring wonders why someone took his children. So enlists the help of one of his young lords. This Lord belongs to the fifth house of Spring and often has the Emperor's ear.
Young Lord Allocise goes to negotiate the release of Prince Spring's children. It is while negotiations take place the Emperor reveals that the Spring King has a secret. A secret that could change the course of Elven destiny. A destiny that is linked to young autumn prince and Child of Nature.
Is all of this a clever distraction? What are the Elves really hiding? What is the secret the spring elves are guarding? What will it take for them to reveal it?