Juniper Alcorn has spent her life feeling out of place among the powerful witches in the forest village of Erith. She spends her days helping her father in their family's bookshop, dabbling in recreational herbs with her best friend, and pining for a life of meaning. When a scruffy, mysterious traveler visits the Alcorn Bookshop in search of a book containing a prophecy about the princess of the sea kingdom, Calimere, she finds more than she bargains for among the shelves. Thrust into an identity crisis, she must venture out of Erith to claim her birthright and rescue the realm from the tyrannical rule of King Darius... with a little help from friends and strangers along the way.