When fifteen-year-old Esme Silver objects at her fatherâs wedding, her protest is dismissed as the actions of a stubborn, selfish teenager. Everyone else has accepted the loss of Esmeâs mother â so why canât she?
But Esme is suspicious. She is sure that others are covering up the real reason for her motherâs disappearance â that âlost at seaâ is code for something more terrible, something she has a right to know.
After Esme is accidentally swept into the enchanted world of Aeolia, the truth begins to unfold. With her newfound friends, Daniel and Lillian, Esme retraces her motherâs steps in the glittering canal city of Esperance, untangling the threads of Arianeâs double life. But the more Esme discovers about Ariane, the more she questions whether she really knew her at all.