She makes friends where others make enemies. Can her odd talent for compassion prevent a massacre? Young Lealle craves freedom and challenge. Raised to honor conventional goals and adopt a prim demeanor, the spirited teen fights to discern her own destiny. But when a horde of bullies trap her in a garden-flanked back alley, she flees-scared and furious-into an abandoned mansion. Stumbling across an injured troll-witch there,...