After Layla, her father and her new friends have found the hidden city of Mountain Veil and Layla’s Uncle Pierce, she receives a message from her friend, Kenrick, regarding her mother. Layla and her father must begin an immediate search for her mother, even if it takes them back across the world again. Although they become separated, they both do everything they can in the strange community they discover in a canyon to fight against the odds - and the odd people - to reunite their family.