Alice endures years of degrading servitude inside the Lincoln family stables, raising her twin children under relentless scorn as fatherless outcasts. The family's cruelty culminates on the twins' fifth birthday when a vicious stepmother flings the youngsters into a churning river, accidentally triggering their dormant celestial heritage.
Manifesting golden scales and obsidian wings, the children survive the plunge and call upon Jack, the supreme ruler of the underworld realm. When the sovereign arrives with imperial legions to claim his family, Alice watches her cruel tormentors fall to their knees, desperate to escape retribution.
