A Burlingame

Since a competing sweet shop opened its doors, things have not gone well for Sinclair's candy shop, Maybe's Candy. Business is slowing, her finances are dropping, and no matter what she does she just can't think of any way to get her business back on top. Even the one highlight of her week - that moment when handsome Parker Johnson, a man she has been flirting with for over a year, comes to buy his usual bag of caramels - isn't much of a treat.

Freshly released from her father's hospital, Hannah is banished from home and sent to live with an uncle who puts her to work for the summer, interning under the chief building inspector in a small Ohio town. It's while she's on the job that Hannah first discovers the Castle: a massive stone structure set in the wheat fields of Ohio.