This story is told in the third person. Inside is a YA fantasy novel with elements of romance, heartbreak, tragedy, and comedy. 

The hero, Michael London, is a young man living with his fiancé Jeremy in Brooklyn, NY. When Jeremy dies unexpectedly, Michael finds himself alone, soon unemployed and homeless. Intending to return to his boyhood home in Tennessee, he instead finds himself in "Inside", a town populated by descendants of ancient druids, a place completely unknown to the outside world. Here he finds a new purpose, new hope, and in time, a new love, and at the same time, is able to help a troubled Insider find his own purpose in life. 

Michael learns that Inside, governed by Seers who possess all the knowledge and power of the druids, is controlled by an invisible force called Seghva: not just a destiny, but a plan for life. He also learns that Seghva is not a force to be trifled with. After challenging an unpleasant but confirmed Seghva (the untimely death of an infant), Michael is forced to endure a terrifying vision: He is placed in the midst of the utter, violent destruction of a French Inside centuries earlier, the result of one man defying Seghva. 

Michael is the first Outsider ever to set foot Inside, but he is not the last. A few years after coming Inside, Michael is summoned before the Seers and asked about Laura Stevens, a close friend he once knew. He is stunned to learn that her Seghva is to be brought Inside. They are reunited, and Inside, Laura finds love that has long eluded her.