Lucia, an angst-plagued teenager, finds herself sent away from home when she and her mother get into a deadly fight. Shipped off to an hamlet in Germany she discovers the stories that her father told her about fairies are true. She winds up smack dab in the middle of an all-out war between Merlin's children and the fae. She will have to grow up and decide which side she's on or live with the choices others will make for her.