The story is about a young girl named Virginia Singerman. With the tragic death of her family, Virginia Singerman took solitude with her uncle in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. After stumbling into an old room in her uncle's mansion, she uncovers an old diary belonging to a girl from the 1800s named Rose Cohen. Ignoring the warning left with the book, Virginia reads about another world near to her own with men that can turn into beasts, warriors that can sprout wings from their backs, fire that can move like a spirit, and the kidnapping and rescue of Rose Cohen. It is only a short time later that the very things that Virginia begins to read about begin to come to life around her, even in the people that are protecting her, who appear to know more than they reveal.