Forrest can't fathom this prickly, knife-wielding girl who so unceremoniously turns up in his family's barn one morning. His life has never been this exciting. Karina can't make herself trust the strangely hospitable villagers on this island she's now stuck on, and when they claim they can knit spells into their garments, that doesn't help. She knows magic exists, but that's just ridiculous.And no one can understand why the chickens have suddenly started laying gilded eggs, or why the horse is talking in rhyming couplets.When the inexplicable magic goes from mere bad poetry to actual threats, when dancing becomes dangerous and the wrong thought could cause disaster, the only answers are in the past Karina is fleeing-and the only way to survive is for the knife-wielder to trust the spellspinner.