Desperately trying to find a place to live after a corporation takes over her building. Julia Campton searches for a place that she and her sixteen year old daughter can both afford and stand to live in. Down to the eleventh hour and out of options she takes the advice of a stranger and agrees to move into a cottage on the back end of a two hundred year old estate. David Winslow, the owner of the estate, returns from England, after three years abroad, to find his family home abandoned and in a state of ruin. The city is threatening to condemn and no one will tell him what happened. Alone and running out of time David meets Julia and the two of them embark on an adventure to save each other. How could they know that by doing so they would be thrust into a a whirlwind of mystery and magic?