In Darklight, Dhana and Julianna are sisters trying to make a break from their difficult pasts. One is escaping from an abusive marriage, the other from their abusive family. In the small northwestern town of Bowmont they begin their mutual search for normal lives. But when they move into the guest house of a gothic mansion on a hill complete with a resident shapeshifter, a gargoyle, a sentient cat and a 7000-year-old Egyptian landlady. it's soon made clear that their lives are going to be anything but normal!