
Young Eliza & her eleven brothers' lives are transformed when a plague ravages the Kingdom of the North & kills their mother the Queen When their father remarries their brilliant & unusual new stepmother becomes obsessed with finding a cure for the plague & protecting her new family a so obsessed that she decides to turn the boys into swans so they can fly away from the plague & to send Eliza to a far-away village the plague hasn't touched Years later the Queen discovers a cure for the plague just before she dies from it herself With the kingdom in chaos it's up to teenaged Eliza to find her brothers break the Queen's spell on them return home to cure the plague a & claim her rightful place in the kingdom!