Gerard Way was a hopeless writer who suffered through his job at a high school just to pay the bills. Then Gerard has accident, that may or may have not been an accident... He dies... Just not entirely... His life turns into one of his very own books where he's stuck in the little place between life and death, and Frank, a student from the English class he teaches, may be the only one that can help him get out of the in-between.

Hope has always wanted to break free. To leave New Jersey and never set her eyes on Belleville again. Could meeting the mysterious band boy Gerard Way set her free? This isn't just another story where the average girl falls for the boy, or is it?