August never wanted to go back to the island of Saiorse after he and his mother snuck away, not after everything happened and they were driven out. But after his mother died, her will requested that she be buried on the island, so August travels back to the one place he never wanted to go back to and the one person that he never wanted to leave.

When author E. Starling disappeared a century ago, she left nothing but rumors and her house. That house has been left to rot, until Opal.