Daphne Harper had just finished her final exams and was looking forward to summer break when she was approached by her university counselor with the fateful words 'There's been an accident." News of her beloved older sister's drowning threatens to tear her world apart, but it soon becomes only the tip of the iceberg of a much greater, far more fantastical upheaval that will lead to her manifesting strange powers, being called by a book that seems to know exactly what she's going through, being chased by a demon and rescued by a merman...