A lonely, young girl finds tyranny, betrayal, and her little brother in an ancient city a mile beneath her grandfather’s farm.
Chelsea Always lives in a world of rejection. A young girl of ten, she has a deformed foot and is painfully withdrawn. At the death of her grandmother, she and her family move to their grandfather’s farm to care for him and his land where a dark mystery is awakened. Compelled to search for her younger brother who is taken in the night by a man with eight legs, she unravels the strands of her grandparent’s past in an ancient world just beneath the soil, being partly transformed herself into a spider. Can Chelsea save her brother from this dark world inhabited by humans and half-human creatures? What is the nineteenth secret that may be the only answer to saving this ancient world torn apart by prejudice and hate?