Elena Rueda loves baseball--and is the best player on her team--but recently has stopped having fun, so during a summer spent with her brother's quirky friends she reflects on who she is and maybe learns love to play again.

Jane is incredibly plain. Everyone says so: her parents, the villagers, and her horrible cousin, who kicks her out of her own house. Determined to get some semblance of independence, Jane prepares to propose to the princely Peter, who might just say yes to get away from his father! It's a good plan! Or it would've been, if he wasn't kidnapped by a mermaid! With her last shot at happiness lost in the deep blue sea, Jane must venture into the world...

Emily, Navin, and their crew of resistance fighters charter an airship and set off in search of the lost city of Cielis.There they hope to find help from the Guardian Council's powerful Stonekeepers.