"Always going, never gone." John O'Brien was kidnapped by fairies when he was six years old. Or so he has always believed. Morgan Reilly collects fairy books. When she actually meets the Good People, she finds out they are not the pretty, flowerlike creatures in her Victorian children's stories, but something far more dangerous. In Newfoundland, the "Good Neighbours" are always around, but belief in them is always dying out. In 1941, the world is at war, but something dangerous lurks close to home, too.