Émilie Saint-Just is an ordinary French girl in the year 1558, whose fervent desire is to serve King, Queen and Country. Chosen as a Lady-in-Waiting to Mary Queen of Scots, Émilie fulfils her duties with grace and diligence, earning her the admiration and close friendship of the Royals, as well as the ire of the other Ladies, and a vicious envy from one in particular, Marguerite; a witch and practitioner of the dark arts. Cursed on her death bed, to a fate of death and rebirth, ad infinitum, by the witch Marguerite, Émilie, instead of slipping into eternal life, slips into a new life, in a new place.