After the sudden death of her adoptive mother, twenty-one-year-old Whitney Dansley moves her teenage siblings to their mother's hometown, Rifton, Oregon. Strange things start to happen when Whitney, Rayn, and Dmitri get to Rifton and they realize they aren't the only witches in the Dark Star Forest. Tucked away in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, Whitney discovers she has been searching for the very thing her mother ran away from. After a lifetime of thinking they were alone in the world, Whitney and Rayn meet three other girls with secret elemental powers and mysterious jewelry that match the ones the sisters have been hiding for years. In the sibling's search to uncover the truth behind their powers and their past, they reveal more than they bargained for including the darkness their mother ran from that still lurks in the forest.

As if things weren't complicated enough, Whitney meets Bryan McClintock. Handsome and clever, Bryan makes Whitney question if she can have love while living a double life. As she escapes further into Bryan, longing for a sense of normalcy, Whitney realizes he may have more ties to this hidden magical world than she anticipated. With her heart pulled in two different directions, Whitney has to decide how badly she wants to uncover the truth and if she's willing to sacrifice her own happiness to do it.