Upon the abrupt demise of her exalted father, young Stella Eiren, heiress to all things good and golden, is suddenly torn from a life full of promise and thrust into realms bleak and brutal. Clinging desperately to her sanity amidst incomprehensible nightmares; stalked by foul monsters and even fouler men, she strives to survive: for love, for family, for an impossible truth at the heart of all things. Striving-again and again-striving to the very end. The End of Dreams.