When Josh Bloom and his friends visit Cherry Tree Manor on a school trip what really interests the class is the mystery about the manor's owner. General Edgar Pennington, who disappeared exactly twelve years before. Everyone hopes to find a clue to where the general has gone. Then Josh discovers something in the manor library that sends him on an adventure of a lifetime - to the land beyond the cherry tree. Josh's quest is one of magic, danger and excitement, true friends and terrifying enemies; a quest to fulfill his own destiny.

Will he ever return from beyond the cherry tree?