Eliza's family is cursed to be tied to a terrifying woods. To assert her claim, she enters the woods, but it's filled with monsters and dangerous illusions. She finds the curse is not just put on her family, it is her family. To be unbound, she must fight not only the monsters in the world outside, but also the evil link within her. Her only hope for a normal life might lie with a dark and mysterious figure—the King of the woods himself. Can she actually defeat Malakor, the King and lift her family's curse, or is she forever stuck in the woods, fated to fall in love with its master?