Considered an outcast amongst the students of Lady Jessica's School of Wonder, an all-girls boarding school for the shaping of proper young ladies, 17-year-old Elizabeth Underhill prefers the company of her books rather than the uptight, overly neat "individuals" around her. Often lost in a book, whether it is a story or her many sketchbooks, Liz yearns for a world outside of the norm which she has been forced into. One day she discovers an unfamiliar door in the library, a cracked black wood door bearing a strange insignia. A door that leads her to a world she has dreamed of.