Ailith Hawthorne has never known love. When her mother Evelyn dies in childbirth, her father, Alastor Hawthorne, blames her for his wife's death. Hidden from the world, Ailith spends her days in melancholy. However, that all changes when she finds a young man spying on her from the forest behind her house. Will this young man be able to teach her how to love? Or will Ailith be forever doomed to a life of solitude?