Nineteen-year-old Violet Evans has always felt like an outsider, misunderstood by everyone in her life. One day, she stumbles into a world previously unknown to her, filled with magic and unusual people. But when she accidentally shuts the portal to her home world, everything changes-the land is cursed with the ever-dark: a sky that remains dark purple all day, with the sun frozen on the horizon, never rising, before shifting to black at night.

Determined to set things right, Violet embarks on a journey to reopen the portal, meeting unexpected companions along the way. Kazuki, her loyal pedicab driver, seems to sense her thoughts and emotions before she even speaks. Ruth and Goosey, an unlikely but steadfast pair, stand by her side in ways she never expected. And then there's Allen-her immediate love interest-who travels with her through lands shaped by both classic fantasy and the strange, otherworldly places unique to The Ever-Dark.

But if she reopens the portal, what will be waiting for her on the other side? A family that hates her? A life she never truly belonged in? Or something far worse?