Former Chicago lawyer Ben Holiday was proud and happy. The Magic Kingdom of Landover, which he ruled as High Lord, was finally at peace, and he and his sylph wife Willow could watch their daughter Mistaya grow. And grow she did...shooting through infancy in months, learning to walk and swim in the same week! Mistaya had been born a seedling, nourished by the soils of Landover, Earth, and the Fairy Mists, in the dank, misty deadness of the Deep Fell. With dazzling green eyes, she was as lovely as her mother, and Ben wanted only to enjoy her childhood and his peaceful kingdom.
But his idyll is interrupted by Rydall, king of lands beyond the Fairy Mists, with armies gathered on Landover's borders threatening to invade unless Ben can defeat seven fierce champions. His advisors urge him to refuse the challenge, but he cannot, for Mistaya has been snatched from her guardians by foul magic. And Rydall holds the key to her fate.
