One year after tragedy strikes on Emmaline Belcourt's eighteenth birthday, and duty rips her best friend Brennan MacKellar away from her, she packs up her life and journeys to a mysterious place from her mother’s past in a last-ditch effort to heal her shattered soul. Little does she know she's about to be introduced to a whole new world she never knew existed. The love and secrets she discovers there will reveal a destiny she never thought possible.