In the world of ASH fairies are an older race of people who walk the line between life & death reality & magic. As orphaned Ash grows up a servant in her stepmother's home she begans to realise that her beloved mother Elinor was very much in tune with these underworld folk & that she herself has the power to see them too. Against the sheer misery of her stepmother's cruelty greed & ambition in preparing her two charmless daughters for presentation at court & hopefully Royal or aristocratic marriage Ash befriends one of these fairies-a mysterious handsome man-who grants her wishes & restores hope to Ash's existence even though she knows there will be a price to pay. But most important of all she also meets Kaisa a huntress employed by the king & it is Kaisa who truly awakens Ash's desires for both love & self-respect... Ash escapes a life with her grim & self-serving stepmother & finds her beloved one...ASH is a fairy tale about possibility & recognizing the opportunities for change. From the deepest grief comes the chance for transformation.