About the book: year / 12 days. 4 kingdoms. Break the curse. Or turn into the Nutcracker. Princess Clara thought she knew the main threat to her freedom. She was wrong. At seventeen, Clara is not ready to get married, and yet this is what she must do as Crown Princess of Austria. However, meeting foreign princes, visiting her kingdom becomes the least of Clara's worries when she raises the enchanted Nutcracker and unleashes a deadly curse. She has twelve days to find and feed the Nutcracker the magic nut Krakatuk. If she fails, her soul will be trapped inside the toy for eternity and her body will turn into wood. Instead of relying on her fans or the king's men to find a cure, Clara saddles up her unicorn and runs away from the palace. Her childhood friend Philip notices her leaving and forces her to choose between returning to the castle or his company. Reluctantly, Clara agrees for him to join her, and they soon travel to a land filled with mythical creatures. Will they survive all the tests and find Krakatuk during? Or Clara's soul will be trapped by the Nutcracker and her body will turn into a tree?