It would be wonderful to meet real faeries in the Deep Forest. That is what a red-haired girl named Sarah Jane Dillard thought — at least until she got to know the magical folk better. One day she found a strange little man in the forest, covered all over with poisoned arrows. Sarah Jane carried him to the farm of Aunt Lillian — a lonely old woman who was said to be a witch. And it so happened that, while saving the wounded stranger, Sarah Jane and Aunt Lillian became entangled in the long-running war of two faerie tribes. Worse still, all the Dillard sisters have been kidnapped for ransom (there are six of them, and every one is red-haired, just like Sarah Jane). Now the girl must journey into the magical world to rescue them.