By virtue of one new life a kingdom is saved by a princess's affliction. Through pain the royal family finds themselves changing in ways that would boggle the mind, and give new insight to the radicals of their kingdom. Her name is Princess Crystal Christallum.

The Faradays travel to 1600s Prague, where Dawk and Hype find themselves in an alchemic mystery.

When their parents, two temporal researchers who travel through time to document history, are transferred to 16th-century Prague, Dawk and Hype hardly expect to find themselves in the middle of an alchemical mystery. In fact, the new, boring job is meant to be a punishment for Dawk and Hype's bad behavior at their last temporal post. The two teenagers are from the 25th century--how could medieval Prague compare? But when they meet a man who claims he can turn metal into gold, Dawk and Hype find out that Prague holds deeper secrets.