every child born with the birthmark only lived long enough to sing a lullaby once.In the town of Grinmere,they found the body at first sight, pale and pallid but what made the midwife drop her lantern was a cry that echoed from Astern lane.

A child born on 29th February with a fire birthmark.For the first time in centuries the bell rang 3 times in a row piercing and deafening every villagers ears.Lengend have it that any child born with the fire birthmark would bring dawn onto Grinmere and Edda was going to be first one.The old rhyme carved into the chapel's door reads "when leapborn cries and daylight breaks, the earth forgets what it forsakes."

Edda was different from everyone, quiet and kept to herself but there was something people don't realise about her.Every time she dreamt, something in Grinmere caught on fire...