After eight-year-old Darach moves in with his eccentric Uncle Rubus, he finds strange happenings afoot in his uncle's small-town Ohio home when a dragon appears. As Darach begins believing in magic, he learns the amazing truth about his family-and himself. The dragon has a riddle, and the riddle leads to a quest. An evil force is destroying all plant life on Earth. Darach and Uncle Rubus, who come from a long line of witches, must find the Seven Sacred...