They say if you pass by on the right night of the year,
you'll hear the devil whisper your name . . .
Once upon a soft, summer night in a small New England town,
a 12-year-old girl named Lisa went into the woods behind her
house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she
told her little brother Sam about a door—hidden among the
ruins of an old town long forgotten—that led to a magical
place. A place where she would meet Teilo, the King of the
Fairies, and become his queen.
Sam didn't believe in fairies, ghosts, or anything
supernatural back then, and now, 15 years later, he still
doesn't. It's one of the many things that his girlfriend,
Phoebe, loves about this practical, sensible man. Sam
doesn't have bad dreams, doesn't avoid the shadows, and does
not fear the dark. Instead, he helps her ignore her own dark
nightmares.
But a series of eerie occurrences—beginning with a
mysterious phone call—begins to challenge Sam's hard-headed
realism. Could there be a world beyond their own and is Lisa
somehow a part of it? As events spin out of control, the
couple finds themselves falling deeper into a vortex of evil
and terror. And suddenly Sam is reminded of a terrible
promise he made years ago . . . a promise that could destroy
them all.