As a child, Helen and her friend Rianna had wandered freely into an enchanted other-world of bright-coloured creatures and strangely beautiful people. Then Rianna had moved away and the enchantment had vanished. Now, fifteen years later, she had returned suddenly, secretive and haunted. And soon Helen found herself drawn back across the half-forgotten, ever-shifting boundaries between reality and fable. Drawn back into the twin lands of Tevera: the sun-bright, singing land of the Chalcenians and the chill, sad underworld of the Domendrans.