When thirteen-year-old Anne is sent to spend the summer with her
dreadful relatives in a small Washington state town, she is left with
little hope that anything intriguing will happen to her. However, when
she learns of an abandoned town full of old Victorian homes hidden in
the woods nearby, she embraces the lore and becomes bolstered by the
idea that an adventure might await.
Her sadistic cousin Lexie feeds Anne's curiosity and leads her to the
mysterious town in the woods, where Anne is goaded by her cousin and
friends to enter one of the abandoned homes, alone, and is locked
inside.
While searching for a way out, Anne stumbles through a hole in the floor
and unknowingly falls into an ominous, ghost-filled mystery. As she digs
deeper into the secrets of this house, she discovers a weathered journal
that reveals a magic-infused history hundreds of years old and a tragic
secret: a curse has trapped the town and its inhabitants in a place not
meant to be found by humans.
Treacherous fairies, dark worlds-within-our-world, dangerous creatures
and a shocking truth all await Anne as page by page, she peels back the
mysteries of this chilling town.