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Former Chicago lawyer Ben Holiday was proud and happy. The Magic Kingdom of Landover, which he ruled as High Lord, was finally at peace, and he and his sylph wife Willow could watch their daughter Mistaya grow. And grow she did ... shooting through infancy in months, learning to walk and swim in the same week! Mistaya had been born a seedling, noursihed by the soils of Landover, Earth and the Fairy Mists, in the dank, misty deadness of the Deep Fell....

Ben Holiday, High Lord of the magic kingdom of Landover, and his wife Willow have sent their 15-year-old daughter Mistaya to our world to attend a prestigious girls' boarding school. Mistaya, Misty to her friends, is not pleased with the arrangement. She is forbidden to use her magic for any reason, can't understand why other girls her own age don't revere the natural world, and is too clever for her own good in coming up with activities definitely...