Six months pregnant and living in a beat-up tiny mobile home, Wanda LeFauve thinks she has found the solution to her problems when she agrees to meet well-to-do Rachel Luckman and her husband. The childless Luckmans are desperate to raise a baby and Wanda is anxious to find a home for her latest. They strike a deal, but as the birth parents and the potential adoptive parents get to know each other, fundamental differences emerge.

Mourning the loss of her mother, nine-year-old Cassie Aisling daydreams of the magical, mythical world her mother left unfinished. Then, one day, a troll appears. Then another. And another. Before they know it, the Aislings find themselves in the vortex between worlds and transported to a ship called the Unicorn. Here, the Aislings discover that they’ve been chosen to find the magical dragon.