Jane Sanderson is an average teen. Her life sucks, nobody understands except her best friend, there is no relief from the day to day monotony that is dealing with her absent workaholic stepfather, her probably evil stepsister who doesn't want her around and makes a daily effort to ensure she knows it, and endless homework that she can't get done at home, but can't go anywhere else to do. She counts down the days to being old enough to leave. Her best friend Milo has her own problems. Its Jane's second-last year of high school in the blisteringly hot or otherwise freezing western suburb of Sydney, Australia. Only one more year after this and she will be 18, legally free to get the hell out of there. But things are getting bad and she's not sure how to survive that long. Until a woodland fae named Ouble happens to take an interest in her and Milo. Dubbed Jane Gibbeth by the underlife world, the spirit-people say the Gibbeth of Jane is a threat to all of both humanity and the underlife if she cannot embrace and resolve the growing dark of her shadow-self, fed by the anger and resentment of her abuse at the hands of her stepfamily. Ouble introduces the girls to the underlife, a world where anything can be anything and the perception is all in the understanding. A world where spirits of ancient creatures travel the light and darkness from dream-thought form in the astral plane of the 3rd dimension to the world as we know it and beyond into the higher levels of this realm and uncountable other dimensions, on a journey of magic, love, treachery and illbegotten fate. Welcome to the shadow world of the Underlife.