"How about making a bargin with me?" said the demon. "I'll
break your spell if you agree to break this contract I'm under."
In the land of Ingary, where seven-league boots and
cloaks of invisibility do exist, Sophie Hatter attarcts the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under
a curse. Determinded to make the best of things, Sophie travels to one place where she might get help -- the moving castle
which hovers on the hills above Market Chipping.
But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl whose appetite, they say, is
satisfied only by the hearts of young girls...
- Blurb from the Novel