Aislinn can see faeries. She was born with the sight, as was her mother and her grandmother before her. Aislinn lives with her Grams, who has taught her how to fool the faeries into believing that she does not know about them. For Aislinn's whole life, her Gram's advice has been to keep her head down and her mouth shut. She has trained in the careful art of not responding to the faery actions going on around her, sometimes even to her. Grams has lived her life in a state of cautious fear. She has remained relatively safe to an old age, but Aislinn knows that Grams is not happy. This is not what the rebellious teen wants for herself. Aislinn wants to finish school, go to college, hang out with her friends and fall in love. She wants a normal life. She wants to be free of the faeries and the knowledge of their existence.