Fourteen-year-old Star Coleman is furious when her father leaves her in the care of her aunt in rural Colorado. Her aunt and grandparents believe in a strange land called Lorlialë, a place that terrifies her father. They think Star’s nightmares about a young woman named Shantelë mean that Star is remembering events that happened in Lorlialë 10,000 years ago, in the time of the Drolords. They want her to open a mysterious portal, but all she wants is for her father to take her back to Oregon, and for her mother to be alive again.
Fourteen-year-old Star Coleman is furious when her father leaves her in the care of her aunt in rural Colorado. Her aunt and grandparents believe in a strange land called Lorlialë, a place that terrifies her father. They think Star’s nightmares about a young woman named Shantelë mean that Star is remembering events that happened in Lorlialë 10,000 years ago, in the time of the Drolords. They want her to open a mysterious portal, but all she wants is for her father to take her back to Oregon, and for her mother to be alive again.