Breen Kelly works at a job she hates while trying to pay off her student loan, pinching pennies, and fighting off anxiety attacks. She's also prone to strange dreams -- like the one she had in which she encountered a dragon. When she discovers an inheritance left to her by her missing father, she moves to Ireland in hopes of finding him. There she finds her way into Galway, a place where faeries and elves dwell, and embraces new powers she never knew...

In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...