In late nineteenth-century Colorado, Louisa's father is erroneously arrested for thievery and, while under the charge of the awful Smirch family, Louisa and a magical friend must find a way to prove his innocence.

Wanting to travel back a few years to a time when her mother almost moved to glamorous Hollywood, Ava Larsen is accidentally sent to 1891, where she struggles with the period's complete lack of digital technology.