It is midnight in Crackledawn. Everyone is waiting for the phoenix to rise up from the forests of Everdark and renew the magic of the Unmapped Kingdoms. But something else emerges from Everdark instead: a harpy bent on stealing the Unmapped magic for itself. And so it falls to a girl called Smudge, and a grumpy monkey named Bartholomew, to set sail and stop the harpy before it's too late.