All Quinn von Arensburg wanted to do on the night it all began was break up with his girlfriend and celebrate his best friend’s eighteenth birthday. Instead, he helps out a mysterious blue-haired girl and gets drawn into a wild chase over walls and roofs, with creatures that shouldn’t even exist in the first place. The chase ends with a car knocking Quinn down, causing life-threatening injuries.
Surviving the accident and the subsequent brain haemorrhage is bordering on miraculous – but the doctors tell Quinn it will take months of therapy and heaps of patience before he
can walk again, go back to school and possibly return to his hobby, parkour.
Quinn is much more troubled, though, by the strange things he’s been seeing and hearing: flickering lights, voices, curious faces staring at him from bushes and trees and vanishing when he looks closely, statues coming to life, doors where there are no doors... Afraid he’ll be declared mad, Quinn doesn’t tell a soul, neither his worried parents nor his best friend Lasse. And that’s where Mathilda Martin comes in. Together with many sisters and cousins who all look the same to Quinn, Mathilda lives right across the street. Her overly devout (and nosy!) parents make her sing in the church choir and do lots of chores in the neighbourhood. Mathilda has secretly harboured a crush on Quinn for ages, so she is only too willing to help him get around in his wheelchair when Quinn’s mother asks her to help him, and to keep him company.
Quinn quickly discovers that there is more to Mathilda than he thought; and so they embark together on a journey to discover a whole new world full of magic, adventure and danger …
