When Hope, a young woman from the West, escapes a life-threatening situation, she finds herself adopted by the Nordic tribe Polaris. However, when she is selected to be a rune chaser, Hope quickly discovers that there are many secrets of life which had been kept hidden from her, and she begins to rethink the world that she thought she knew.
It does not take long until Hope and her new found family become key players in a war between two lands, fighting with powers that she had imagined only to exist in fairy tales. Yet in the midst of the conflict, they quickly realize that without help, they were in a fight for survival, rather than conquest.
Three fifteen-year-old classmates, with nothing in common but secrets that divide and threaten to destroy them cross paths with a mischievous and naughty poltergeist/fairy. Ciaran- an anxiety ridden, pyromaniac thinks he is a superhero and can see fairies. Rowan-a conflicted homophobic bully with a secret boyfriend. Promise-shattered by the abandonment of her father and the haunted house she is forced to live in with her drunken mother. When Ciaran and Rowan cross paths with a fairy named Sonjoni, Ciaran discovers that he is not a superhero at all but Merlin's murdered son and like his father was becomes a portal to Tuntematon. Rowan and Ciaran unintentionally end up in Tuntematon where they discover they are pivotal elements in an ancient plot of revenge orchestrated by Ciaran's supposed mother. The fairies in Tuntematon must kill Rowan before the giant spider does. Though Ciaran does all he can to help Rowan survive, he fails miserably, and it takes something more than magic to save Rowan. It will take True Love.