Madeline Penn doesn't remember most of her childhood, all except that she wasn't allowed to read any books. Ever since her sister mysteriously dissapeared, her parents had been secretive and quiet about everything. They homeschooled her and forbade her from picking up a book of any kind. So ten years later when her parents leave for a night out in London, trusting fifteen year old Madeline to behave, she sneaks up to her attic to explore and finds a small blue leather back book, engraved with the word Erimead. Curious, she flips through it finding another world beneath the surface of the pages. Literally. After reading a page aloud she gets sucked into the magical world described by the author, surrounded by all the characters she had read about. Tangled up in the fantasy world of Erimead and their dangers, Madeline must figure out a way to escape the pages of the book. And along the way she learns new things about herself and her sister as well. In this exhilarating, heart pounding adventure, with a couple of crushes, forbidden romances, and angered villains, Madeline discovers a new part of herself that she had not known was there before.