The fate of Bartholomew Lampion, a gifted California child who loses his eyes to cancer at age three and miraculously regains his sight at thirteen, is entwined with the lives of a San Francisco girl born of rape and a man a thousand miles away who learns he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew.
Ginny's eyes play tricks on her, making her see everything double, but when she goes to vision screening at school and discovers that not everyone sees this way, she learns that her double vision can be cured.
As a sharp-eyed fairy scout in Pixie Hollow, Myka protects the other fairies from dangers, but after her eyesight begins to worsen, she uses her other senses to convince everyone that she still can see and do her job.