When you live in a place called Avalon, you hear a lot about King Arthur and Camelot. And when you live in a tourist town called Avalon, on an island no less, the mythology just seems to grow. Couple that with an eccentric aunt who just so happens to own a new-age and fantasy shop and the mythology and intrigue only grows further.

For cousins, Amy Dumas and Jamie Sky, their maternal Aunt Katie Winter, this is their life growing up in Avalon, California which is the only major city on the island of Catalina.

Amy and Jamie are home for the summer, helping out their aunt like they've been doing since they were old enough to do so. Before they started college, the two cousins would work for their aunt all year, but obviously they couldn't do that when they were away.

Because of the small size of Avalon, practically everyone knows everyone else, Amy's uncle is the current mayor and Jamie's uncle is the city manager. The Winter family owns a good chunk of the tourism industry in Avalon though Katie's shop is kind of a sore spot for the Winter matriarch, Grandmother Viviane.

But, like all good citizens of Avalon, the Winter family does their part to contribute to the community. Aunt Katie also played into the mythology by naming her shop the Lady of the Lake.

For her part, Jamie dates a nice boy by the name of Joshua Sabin who saved her from a school bully when they were in kindergarten. Though they didn't start dating until seventh grade, and even then it wasn't really dating. But that was the time when everyone, as in all eighty of the seventh grade students, called it that.

Aunt Katie says that Joshua doesn't fit the Lancelot role, to which Jamie questions why she's Guinevere and not Elaine or Morgana. Aunt Katie merely smiles at her with this twinkle in her eye and says it's just not Jamie's destiny.

And then Grandmother Viviane says for Katie to stop telling such wild stories, and dinner continues as usual, the two twelve year old cousins surrounded by the rest of Winter family women, which includes their mothers, their Aunt Katie, Grandmother Viviane and three more aunts. The two girls have numerous male cousins, but because they're the only nieces, they tend to get spoiled by their aunts. Grandmother Viviane spoils them as well, because they are her granddaughters and they are Winter children.

Aside from their own mothers, of course, Amy and Jamie adore their Aunt Katie above all others.

They'll never say that out loud, of course, because that would just be rude. Plus, if they were to say something like that, there's the possibility that they could be spending less time with Aunt Katie. So they say nothing, they listen closely to the stories that Aunt Katie tells them and they absorb the legends and mythology of King Arthur, Camelot and Avalon, along with everyone else.

But never once did Amy Dumas or Jamie Sky ever think that the legends could come true.

That would all change, in a very significant way, and none of those closely affected would ever be the same.