Chayse and Reed Leftwich are twin twelve-year-olds who have a broken home: their dad can't hold a job and is always behind on child payment and their mom is never home between alternating work shifts. Worse, the twins are one step ahead of a FINS filing and a DHS hearing. That is until one night when Elsie Crutch, a woman claiming to be from CASA, shows up to take the children into foster care. But Crutch reveals herself as the Elfwitch and abducts the twins to another world. In this counterpart world known as the Realm, everyone the twins know is someone slightly different. Here, their parents are different people who think the twins are mad strangers. The twins must learn to help each other and their estranged parents to fight the evils of the Elfwitch in order to return to their own world and heal their broken home.