On a snowy night, three-year-old Maisy Hayes is freezing to death when her celestial lucky spirit awakens. At the same time, Clara Reed, the desperate Princess of Northwatch Manor, rescues her. The once-glorious Northwatch Manor is now collapsing: Prince Gavin Hayes is poisoned and comatose, their eldest son is disabled and embittered, and the family is drowning in massive debts while enemies close in.