Single mother Zoe McCourt must struggle against man and magic when she becomes the last of her friends to follow the clues that will lead her to the key of valor which when combined with the keys of light and knowledge will free the Daughters of Glass, three Celtic demigoddesses imprisoned by an evil sorcerer.
Remy, a talented, seventeen-year-old auto mechanic, questions his decision to join his girlfriend when she starts college in Pennsylvania, after a visiting artist helps him realize what his family home in a dying West Virginia mountain town means to him.
In 1954, when mine closings bring an economic crisis to Way Down Deep, West Virginia, foundling Ruby Jolene Hurley makes a thirteenth-birthday wish to find the treasure rumored to have been buried by one of the town's founders.
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
Eleven-year-old Marty, having acquired his beloved beagle Shiloh by blackmailing his drunken, abusive neighbor Judd, worries that Judd might yet try to get revenge, but the situation is resolved through an act of kindness.