Kate Archer returns home in search of her missing grandmother, Bonny, and to serve as guardian of the town's amusement park until her return... only the carousel animals are really exiles from the faerie world. And not the nice kind of exiles either--no, these are hardened criminals.

While trying to sort out her new role, Kate gets on the wrong side of the neighboring drug smuggler, who decides she's in the way. And, finally, the startling news comes that Grandmother Bonny's disappearance may have had something to do with Kate's long-missing mother....