"It is not death I fear—but the harrowing nature of mortality." A boy with hair as red as roses, but blood as clear as water.  A woman who will never have a child of her own. A girl who lives on the edge, to remind herself she is alive.  What do these individuals have in common?  Enter The Dollhouse, a magical world home to The Dolls — beautiful and enchanted creatures cursed to endlessly scour the earth without meaning or direction. Created for Helena Briar by her father Dr. Briar after a terrible accident shattered their relationship and family, The Dollhouse is his final testament of love-and magnum opus. But what will happen, when many years later, Renata her daughter stumbles across the same dollhouse, abandoned and forgotten, but far from empty? Might the secrets hidden inside be the key to immortality in the face of war, and for a dying king?  No matter the cost…?