The story cycle continues to drag innocent people into fairy tales, except this time, Mari is in charge. Or is she? Mari struggles to adjust to her new role as the Keeper of Stories while raising a stubborn toddler. Plus, the missing persons case at Bay Side Media has fallen into Mari's lap and there are a lot of fairy tales that involve kidnapping. Everything is piling up fast, making Mari want to rip her planner to shreds and quit adulting. But when her mother vanishes to the mysterious Cygnus Island, Mari must face the fairy tales and their villains. Can she kill two birds with one stone? The story world keeps spilling over into San Francisco's bay in the second book of the Mari Fable Mysteries.