Deep in the woods lies a village erased from every map. The lantern appears only to lonely people. Those who follow it find the village and a life they've always wanted but they can never leave, and eventually everyone outside forgets they ever existed.

Zyraen has always lived in the shadow of her older brother’s protectiveness, safe in the ordinary rhythm of their city life. But the day he leaves for a month overseas, promising to call her every day, everything begins to unravel. When Zyraen meets her friends in the old garden for one last goodbye, she learns a devastating truth—they’re leaving too, transferring to a distant school. Heartbroken but determined not to cry, she returns for her forgotten notebook… only to find them slipping through a door in the garden wall. A door that was never there before. Drawn by shock and betrayal, Zyraen steps into the impossible glow—and finds herself in Talyria, a kingdom of three moons, ancient secrets, and a magic that answers to no laws of her world. But time flows differently here: five years in Talyria pass as only five months at home. If Zyraen can’t find a way back soon, her brother will return to an empty house, and she will be lost to him forever. The only person with power strong enough to open the gate is Talyria’s enigmatic prince—a Nytheris, wielder of the kingdom’s most dangerous and beautiful sorcery. Feared as much as he is worshipped, his price for helping her may be more than Zyraen is willing to pay. Trapped between two worlds, Zyraen must uncover the truth about the gate, her friends, and her own place in Talyria… before both homes slip away from her grasp.