Abeline is only a child and finds herself removed from the comforts of her family's homestead. Accustomed to the verdant protection of a home in the hills, her family is now missing. In a world far away from our own, the girl must make a perilous journey north, evading the creeping storm and those she might cross on her path. There are those searching for her and those who mean her harm. Will there be any that choose to simply help her?