At some point there has to be a limit to what Eleanor Denning can handle. In her new life as a nightwalker, she's spent every second hiding in her bedroom. Three weeks is a long time to spend staring at the pink walls surrounding her, most people would've gone insane sometime during day two, but not Ellie.
Realizing she isn't going to learn anything about what she's become while hiding in her room, Ellie finally ventures out. The castle she now calls home has a lot of secrets hiding in its walls, or at least its gardens. Learning new things would be a lot easier if becoming a nightwalker and moving halfway around the world were the only challenges Ellie faced. Relatives she didn't know existed, an unexplainable draw to her teacher and a visit from a nightwalker who has ties to Marques are just a few of the things that lead Ellie to believe her life is never going to be normal again.