A month before her fifteenth birthday, Dagona loses her father — and with him, the ordinary life she once knew as the daughter of a royal general. A life filled with sword training, travel, and the simple promise of education. Four years later, just a month before she turns nineteen, she unexpectedly receives gifts from serpents and is transported to Lisitea, a magical fairy kingdom. There, she is welcomed with warmth and invited to stay in a fairy-tale palace surrounded by a sea of white flowers. Having loved herbs since childhood, Dagona is thrilled to discover she can develop her serpentine abilities in a garden of poisonous plants and an elixir workshop. She also takes up her sword again, training almost daily with a powerful, seasoned warrior. And she does it not only because she loves it — but because four trials await her, set by Morax, the kingdom’s “chief villain,” as part of a bargain struck by those who place profit above everything else.