Thirteen year-old Fair O'Nelli has spent the last nine years of her life living in a cellar.  She knows her father and brother are missing, or possibly dead.  Set free on her day of maidenhood when it's safe to be seen, Fair sets off in the company of three guardians to find Selador's Gate.  Along the way she discovers a dark secret the parents of Cloven Grave know nothing about, where the key to survival is learning to see things as they are.