Plot Summary

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Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7
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A home help worker named Anna Limón goes to live in a creepy old house to work for an elderly lady named Sally Martin. One day, Anna finds a box filled with letters in the attic. When Sally sees it, she begins to scream the words "I'm going into the ground for you." Curious and looking for answers, Anna begins to contact Sally's only living relative: her missing granddaughter, Mabel Martin. Through several treasure hunts, Anna learns that the letters are from Luna Thorne, a citizen of Fairy Hill-- an underworld-like area under the Martin Place. She also learns that Mabel has been trapped there by the ruler of the Hill, who is known only as the King.

Sally ends up being taken to the garden by a faery and left to die of hypothermia. Anna finds her just before she dies and brings her to the hospital. Anna asks Sally what's going on with the letters at the hospital, but Sally isn't able to answer. When Anna goes back to the Martin House, she is taken into the hill by Luna Thorne and meets Mabel for the first time. She falls head-over-heels in love with her and, after returning to the real world and realizing Sally is now dead, decides there's nothing left for her in the real world. Thus, she decides to drink poison to open a door into the Hill and swap her place with Mabel (after receiving advice from Mabel's long-dead father, Thomas). Mabel ends up in the Martin House, while Anna-- now dead-- is trapped in the hill.

Mabel tries to get back to Anna, which is complicated somewhat by Luna creating a clone of Anna to take her real-world place. Mabel kills the clone and makes a deal with the House to get back into the Hill, and gets back to Anna. Anna, Mabel, and the reborn clone-- now calling herself Veratrine-- decide to kill the King in order to take his place and become the rulers of the hill. They pull it off as a cult (led by a woman named Aurora Silver, who is trying to capture the King) chases them down. Just as Anna wins the fight against the King, a cultist named Brandon arrives and shoots himself after repeating Sally's line-- "I'm going into the ground for you." The bullet richochets off of him and hits Mabel's arm.

This leaves Anna dealing with several crises: Mabel is dying due to the bullet, Anna has to be coronated to become the true king of the hill even as the entire Faery Court chases her down, and a woman who believes herself to be the Old King's daughter is trying to steal Anna's throne. It turns out this woman, Aconite, is actually a cultist with amnesia due to the trauma she experienced. Anna saves Mabel and helps Aconite before being coronated, becoming the King of the Underhill. Mabel becomes her consort.

Just as they're about to get their happy ending, a paranormal investigator named Janet Kirk runs into the Martin House and pulls Anna back into the real world. Anna, Janet, and Janet's friend Eidolon (who chases ghosts) are currently on a road trip trying to figure out the secrets of Janet and Eidolon's world-- which is not Anna's original world, seeing as Mabel is dead in this one-- while also avoiding the cult. Mabel's current wherabouts are unknown.