Just when their lives couldn't get any better, Brendan, Eleanor, and Cordelia Walker's father loses his job in a mysterious accident. Forced to relocate to an old Victorian house that just happens to be the former home of occult novelist Denver Kristoff--and it would seem the occult influence on the house hasn't left. The three Walker kids wake up one night to find themselves banished to a magical, primeval forest, haunted by medieval warriors, with supernatural pirates sailing the seas around them. The siblings have to figure out how they got there in order to get back home.