Nola Goddard learns that her parents fled from a magical world to protect their unborn child. Now at age twelve, she inadvertently reveals their location to the dark wizard, Grimald, who kidnaps her parents.
Determined to rescue them, Nola finds her way to the magic world where she meets her sixteen-year-old elf cousin, Ryan. When Grimald starts taking over the country, the cousins escape and battle their way across the new and frightening land.
Along the way, they fight creatures who are determined to destroy them: snobbish elves, evil merpeople, trolls, hags and faeries, but this is only a precursor to the dangers awaiting at Grimald's Castle on Goblin Mountain. Follow Nola and her cousin as they are captured by goblins and tortured by the Lady of Secrets. Against all these odds Nola and Ryan are the magic world's only hope.