She may be guilty of arson, but she didn't kill the burned girl haunting her.
Elyse Pthan blames herself for her father's death. She stayed out past her curfew, and he was killed in a car accident when he went out looking for her. After the funeral, her house burns down, and Elyse is accused of setting the fire. Homeless and worried for her daughter, Elyse's mother moves her family to Astoria, Oregon to live with the strict grandmother they never knew.
Enraged by her grandmother's rigid rules, Elyse discovers the terrible heritage her mother kept hidden. Her family may be responsible for the 1922 fire that nearly destroyed Astoria, the death of a girl who longs for vengeance as she haunts the tunnels beneath the city, and mysterious disappearances spanning hundreds of years.
Helping her uncover the truth is Phantom, an enigmatic and surprisingly attractive boy, considering his scars, his talent as a pickpocket, and his status as the local social outcast. A boy with a hidden weapon and a dark heritage of his own, that could turn him from friend to hunter.
Fifty years ago Hazel, (the future fox demon princess of a mystical land Ezea) witnessed an eere death of her parents, ninety percent of creatures in Ezea, and kidnapping of her eldest sister Luna, after the killing spree ended, Hazel encounters a spider Denon name Oleo who raises her as her own. As fifty years passed an ambitious tomboy name Jaiyden Ivory who is a fifteen year old high school freshman from Chicago has dreams of going to NYU to study dance and adores skate boarding. After she finds out Jim (her step-father) recevied a job relocated to Canada to become the headmaster at a private boarding school for grades 5-12. When she starts school on the first day she already feels isolated and alone apart from her new friend Nelson who is quickly accepting over her. She runs into the woods in the back of the school where she tries to get privacy but then is attacked by a grizzly bear and falls into a hole which leads her to Ezea. Terrified and in denial at first she believes she's in a dream but later find out she is the chosen warrior to fight in the shadow war, defeat Ioh and protect both her world and Ezea