From a royal engagement to a mouse's view of the floorboards: True love looks a lot different from the shadows.The engagement ball of Princess Jillian of Mulotia to Prince Tedric of Marcham was supposed to launch a year of courtship - a chance for her to get to know the dashing royal from the kingdom by the sea. Instead, a surprise play for her father's throne forces Jillian to flee her small kingdom and moves the wedding up-way up.

Homesick and overwhelmed, Jillian wades into the high-societal hazards of the much more sophisticated kingdom of Marcham. Despite the catty scheming of Tedric's former suitresses, she is holding her own, and the clouds are finally lifting.

Until dark magic crashes them down again.

A power-hungry sorceress, a prince's betrayal, and the treachery of powerful Marcham families send Jillian scampering through the castle transformed into a mouse and hunted by the imposter who took her place. With the clock ticking toward the wedding day and Jillian's last chance to reclaim her body and her life, she must outsmart a pair of harpies, dodge a castle full of mouse-hating cats, and trap a sorceress. Along the way she discovers a prince who isn't so charming when seen from the shadows.