After surviving harrowing summer twelve years ago, Fern Capel renounces her mystical powers. Yearning for a simple life, she decides to marry. Her fiancé insists they wed at the Capels' summer house, a place swelling with mood and magic. When Fern returns there, ancient, sinister forces reawaken. Forced to confront the evil again, Fern realizes she has had enough of running from her fate. Reclaiming her Gift, Fern is swept into another land, removed from Time, void of comfort. It will take all her skill and daring to fight her way back to the present and sabe the people she loves from the evergrowing danger that threatens to destrou them. And to her utmost surprise, the key to survival is a dragon with the capacity to rule the world...