Young Helayne "Lanie" Blackwell believed she was an ordinary girl leading a very boring and ordinary life, until the summer she turns 15 and a mysterious letter arrives from her missing mother's family.
Reluctantly, she leaves her father behind as she travels to England to meet her distant relatives. Unknowingly to Lanie, her "boring" and "ordinary" life will become a fond memory as she is thrust into a world of darkness and evil that she must somehow find the strength and courage to survive.