An unseen killer has hunted servant girls in the halls and courtyard of Castle Faldorrah for days, leaving eleven dribbling ghosts to haunt aging castellan Dubric Byerly with the weight of their deaths. The three surviving victims-Dubric's page Lars, herald Beckwith, and, finally, linen maid Nella-offer only more questions until Nella's benefactor and romantic pursuer, Lord Risley Romlin, defiant grandson of the King and Faldorrah's Lord, forcibly...