"Sapphire," murmured Nareen," Gran has said that coiled inside the chrysalis lay a cool licking fire the colour of sapphire, breathing and alive. A fire cloaked in brown."

"You mustn't breathe on it," she'd said, "or it will die. Use the incantation to open it or it will die..."

When Nareen finds a spiral-shaped chrysalis in her backyard she is sure it's the magical chrysalis her gran told her about...

Nareen, her brother Carl and best friend Kelly are soon drawn through the spiral into another world. they have a week to find their way out before the spiral fades away and the trio are trapped forever....