Chaste princesses should never make bargains with men clad in dark attire and unknown intentions.
Bound to an agonizing and everlasting solitude with her eternally sleeping mother and eternally weeping father, a lonely princess roves her enchanted castle while trailing hopeless dreams behind her—until a tormented stranger breaches the walls and offers her one of those dreams.
Companionship.
She knows she should resist. She knows she can't trust a man who turned her inconsolable father's tears to blood, and who hunted her through her castle, and imprisoned her in an icy cage in the orchard.
But, well, she's lonely.
(And that can excuse some quite dastardly things…)