When Lucy, a young, noble girl from the islands of Barbados, loses her Grandfather to a sickness, she's left with the one option she never thought she would have to consider: moving in with her Aunt and Uncle overseas in the quaint town of Wethersfield, where the Witch Trials are currently taking place.
She secures passage on Captain Dragneel's ship and endures the long and eventful trip to her relatives.
Upon arriving and trying to adapt to her new life with her strict Uncle and cousins, Levy and Juvia Dreyer, Lucy flees to Blackbird pond where she meets the widow Porlyusica. This woman's cabin in the meadow becomes Lucy's safe haven as she stumbles through the difficulties of this new and difficult life.
Feelings develop, others are discovered to have always been there. Lucy faces the scale of life or death in defense for her own friends.
And through all of it, a heart-stopping realization claws wildly at this young girl's heart.
She may be falling in love with her best friend.