Every action has a consequence. Even small, spontaneous, perhaps involuntary ones. And as a result of one such action, life for Tiffany Aching is about to get very complicated. By dancing with a charismatic stranger, she has inadvertently begun a sequence of tumultuous events from which she cannot escape. But it"s not just Tiffany who will suffer the consequences of that supposedly innocent dance: it"s everyone who has expectations of the routines of life - that day will follow night, and that spring will follow winter. Because nature must be allowed to take its course...