This is the story about a baby whose mother dies and left him alone in Elfspride. Adopted by an Elf Queen, who holds him over the heads of her people, he runs away and gets lost in the human world. Trying to find his way back to the Elves, he gets several punishments for doing wrong things. In the middle of one of his punishments, he is rescued by the king’s daughter, and as they grow up together, they fell in love. Just when he thinks his life is working out, he runs away again and finds himself back in Elfspride. In parts of the story, the main character talks to his mother in a dream and his father twice. After discovering the real love of his life, he decides not to return to Midlothian, but tragic events make him go back.