Elma is a girl with a rare magic bloodline called the van derenothers can it witchcraft but she calls it a gift, one her mother left hershe stays with her dad Gabriel and little sister Lizzie. lost her mother Catherine two years earliershe is a chicken coop girl who pays tax every monthher little sister is poor in health and needs doctors attention but elma is poor and can't afford itshe discovers a magic book her mother left for her and that Changed her life.she was supposed to be a princess but the current king killed her grandfather and took over the thronenow elma is fighting to take it back