October is informed that Simon Torquill - legally her father, due to Faerie's archaic marriage traditions - must be invited to her wedding or risk the ceremony throwing the Kingdom in the Mists into political turmoil. Now she finds herself setting out on a quest she was not yet prepared to undertake for the sake of her future - and the man who represents her family's past. --adapted from jacket.

A love triangle develops between an injured trapeze artist, his student, and a circus tumbler.