Who are the Corathane, the keepers of the firewand, and what is the secret they've guarded for generations? And what does that secret have to do with "quiet, bookish, ordinary" Jocelyn Quiring? The summer Jocelyn turns fourteen, her adventures begin when her family moves to the North Country to be with her mysterious Uncle Leb who has some secrets of his own. The secrets she learns there change her entire life. They could change yours.