Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her. Sixteen-year-old Alison has been sectioned in a mental institute for teens, having murdered the most perfect and popular girl at school. But the case is a mystery: no body has been found, and Alison's condition is proving difficult to diagnose. Alison herself can't explain what happened: one minute she was fighting with Tori - the next she disintegrated. Into nothing. But that's impossible. Right?

The faeries of the Oak are dying, and it's up to a lone faery named linden to find a way to restore their magic. She travels into the dangerous new territory beyond the Oak. where she enlists the help of an unlikely friend - a human named Timothy. Soon they discover something much worse than the Oakenfolks's loss of magic: a potent evil that threatens teh fate of all faeries.