Thalia O'Shea was running for her life, escaping the quaint village of Faedale, into the feared, murky Shadow Woods. Her fellow villagers had been using her for her unusual power- to make plants grow from simply her palm. Aware of the dangers that lay ahead, she braves the precarious forest, abandoning her old life, and trading it for copious personalities.
While discovering bizarre people and things in the woods, she disguises herself as someone else. Trading her long locks for a bob, she reinvents herself as Katherine Wittman, a merchant's daughter. Undercover, she becomes a dragon slayer, saving the village from the most feared dragons, using her unknown powers.
Not expecting to find love, she meets Jakob Letthine, a handsome young hunter who admires her bravery. Before she knows it, she can't bear to part from him, but what will he think of her powers? Will it ruin their fiery passion?