Princess Minerva of Dorr is a fiery princess determined to plot her own course in life. Useless lived his entire life in Dorr, studying under the tutelage of his master, Dorr’s Chief Alchemist. Now on the run from a deadly assassin and a mad sorcerer, Useless and Minerva must join with unexpected allies and venture to places they had never dreamed of to break the princess’s curse and stop a madman from making his horrible dream a reality.