After the death of her beloved husband Robert, Calla Lowell feels her childhood home calling to her in her time of grief and desperation. Packing up her life, she goes back to the small provincial town of Gillytree with her children in tow to make her parents’ old house her home again. However, when she comes across Arby, a childhood friend of whom she only has the faintest of recollections, things become even more confusing – especially when she realizes that the normalcy of her life is a lie and that magic and mayhem lurk in every corner.