Eleanor was wary of her new home at first: the strange landscape, the unfriendly faces in the classroom. Then she discovered her grandmother's old diary, and quite unexpectedly her lonely life changed. Now a bushfire is raging and her life is at stake. So is Ken's, Mike's and six-year-old Billy's. In desperation, Eleanor realises she knows more than she thinks about this alien world and that it's up to her to save them. But first she needs help - the sort of help that only her grandmother Elizabeth, sixty-five years away, can give her ...