Tess de Sousa is no ordinary orphan and when a stranger shows up claiming to be a distant relative come to adopt her, she hopes to find out about her mysterious origins. But it becomes clear that he knows more about Tess – and the strange star-shaped device left with her when she was abandoned as a baby – than he’s letting on. And when Tess discovers that the Starspinner is the gateway between her world and a parallel world in which war rages, she realizes she may be the key to a terrible plan. A plan she must stop at all costs...