The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

Welcome to Fantastica, a world filled with rejects, runaways, and magic that changes all who are brought to it. Jewelia, an ordinary teenage girl from Indiana with spina bifida and a longing to be free from her parents, finds herself in Fantastica with a new gift. Though the world she finds, and the people she meets - a fiery Southerner with a fiery scar, a sweet and brilliant boy who might just like her back, a mayoral prodigy with secrets to hide - are beyond what she could ever have imagined, her new gift comes with great danger. Faced with threats against her very life, Jewelia must answer questions she had never before thought to ask: who can she trust, why is Onyx the Raven after her, what happened to Temperance, is The Great Wizard Malius behind all of this - and above all, she must learn how to fly.