Sometimes really strange and wonderful adventures happen to you. But most of the time, they don’t. Eleven year old Ellie Dashe had no longing for adventure. After all, her father had died from it. But then, the very first night in her new apartment, Elllie accidentally discovers Nuala O’Whim, a willful and sometimes even mean fairy whose taste for fresh cream got her locked in Ellie’s chimney. For ninety-five years, Nuala has been waiting in the soot and she isn’t the only one who has been waiting. There are others depending upon her, and somewhere in a park in San Francisco-Nuala can’t remember exactly where-they are still waiting. Soon Ellie is pulled into Nuala’s world. And when the rescue of a princess goes really, really wrong, things get wild and dangerous.