When Clarissa Iverton was fourteen years old, her mother disappeared leaving Clarissa to be raised by her father. Upon his death, Clarissa, now twenty-eight, discovers he wasn't her father at all. Abandoning her fiancé, Clarissa travels from New York to Helsinki, and then north at the Arctic Circle - to Lapland. There, under the northern lights, Clarissa no only unearths her family's secrets, but also the truth about herself.