Lottie is an ordinary girl who longs to be a princess, attending Rosewood Hall on a scholarship. Ellie is a princess who longs to be ordinary, attending Rosewood to avoid her royal duties in the kingdom of Maradova. Fate puts the two fourteen-year-olds in the same dorm, it seems like a natural solution to swap identities: after all, everyone mistakenly believes Lottie to be the princess anyway.