Rebekah James Chelasea Kauer has OCD. Then Chelsea's biology teacher asks her to pet-sit while she is on vacation. Chelsea can't find a reason to say no until she finds out the pet is a monitor. Chelsea's teacher begs her so Chelsea says yes. The second time that Chelsea goes to feed the monitor, she brings her boyfriend. She thinks that the monitor has eaten the dog that lives just next door. So being curious her boyfriend sticks his hand in the cage and the monitor bites off a piece of his finger.
Heir to Sevenwaters, Clodagh, and her five sisters are the daughters of a great chief. Their cousin johnny is next in line to be Heir to Sevenwaters. Then Clodagh's mother has a son and he is next in line. Then trouble starts to stir. Johnny's men are acting suspicious and Clodagh's mother,with no strength to get out of bed leaves the baby in her hands. That is when the baby goes missing and a changeling in his place.