Alida Colibri has escaped from an attack on her hometown by the Proserpentia, an evil group of people, bent on becoming the rulers of everything, and is separated from the main group, with seven other children. The eight of them need to get through the dark forest they're stuck in, without a map, and meet her father...
Sophia Evans is a weird girl with weird thoughts. To get rid of these thoughts, she writes in her diary. Or, her plain book as she likes to call it. In love with the school's resident hottie, she would do anything to have him. After a strange string of events, she loses her book, the one that she wrote everything in...