When Mark Willoughby is confronted by a woman who looks like both a witch and a ghost, his life abruptly changes. For it appears that he is "The One Marked by Willow" destined to save a strange land called Lazaronia, whose inhabitants have been cursed with infertility. Only the King and Queen managed to have a child, a daughter. But there is nobody in Lazaronia to marry her when she grows up. The King's jealous brother Ignarius (who cast the infertility spell) has murdered King Lazarone and tried to pass himself off as the King. However, he couldn't convince the Queen Regent, who has had to rule the land and simultaneously search the universe for a husband for her daughter. As if the idea of never seeing his family again isn't enough, Mark also has to free the Goddess Lazaria, imprisoned on her ice-bound moon by Ignarius.