Alison has been missing for two years, and the last thing she remembers is getting into a car. Making matters worse, her memories of those two years are gone, and she's being hunted. She slowly begins to remember pieces of her past, but not fast enough. And none of them tell her how she ended up alone in an alley. Fighting to get back the missing pieces of her life, she's thrown into a world full of shady characters, where trusting the wrong person just might cost her her freedom. And her life.

Emmeline's beautiful and she knows it. She's looking to breeze through college while breaking as many hearts as possible, but when she stumbles across a Key and ends up in an unfamiliar world with only the enigmatic Alex for company, everything starts to change. Suddenly, Em and Alex find themselves stranded in a vastly different culture from what they know. The Gateworld is dangerous, rife with crime and magic, and they will have to transverse life-changing obstacles if they want a shot at returning to Earth.

DreamMakers, a small portion of the population that can create and manufacture dreams. Humanity can't dream anymore, but with the help of DreamMakers, each night they can vicariously live a dream that they've purchased. Minerva would give anything to live someone else's dream, even just for a night. No one else that she knows can dream, yet she's lucky enough to have horrible nightmares. Trapped in a world of constant turmoil, her re-occuring nightmares plague her as they begin to grow stronger and more vivid. What bothers her the most is that she can't seem to shake the notion that the dreams are somehow more than that.