When a tea shop owner is abducted and finds out she is the unwanted daughter of a probably definitely dead assassin, what will she do when she finds political unrest blocking her from her one way home? Will she rise to the challenge of joining a well established, but probably over half-insane guerrilla war against a well supplied, but definitely half-trained mercenary political army? Or will more wondrous forces drive her into a curiouser and curiouser land?