Once upon a summer day, Prince Borel of the Winterwood falls asleep, and a beautiful golden-haired maiden with a shadowy band across her eyes comes to him in his dreams and pleads for aid. She returns time after time, and the prince is certain that she is real and in deadly peril. Yet he knows not who she is ... nor where she is imprisoned. Opposed by witches, trolls, goblins and beings even more dreadful, and aided by a field sprite, Borel begins...