Gabi, an aspiring fashion designer, sees her world in colors. Scarlet, turquoise, and mauve coat a new world of controlled visions when, in an attempt to connect with her absent oneirologist father, she reads a book about lucid dreaming. But she isn't the only one with the power to manipulate dreams, and soon she becomes entangled in a battle between two factions in New York City. The more she tries to sort out who will betray her and who she can trust, the deeper she falls into what is all an illusion. Reality isn't what it seems, there's no distinguishment between sleeping and waking, and soon her own mind doesn't belong to her anymore. If she doesn't separate what's real and what's a dream-if she doesn't learn to control the tattoo unfurling on the back of her neck-she'll go insane. Her only clues are a door that seems to exist only in her brain and a dazed girl's messy sketches; her only affirmation is the belief that her best friend isn't the traitor he's become.

Erika Soto is one of those pretty plastic people. She's been rated a nine by the senior boys every single Monday, and at a school where secrets and weaknesses are taken advantage of, a high rating is a ticket to the school's elite. But there's more to Erika and the Aquino High royalty she surrounds herself with: there's regret, flaws, and a single night that rips them all apart. And after years of clawing her way to the top, for the first time she can see things clearly: she's done with only being pretty and plastic. As her life starts to unravel and her perspectives on everyone she thought she knew change, she has to make a quick decision between living at the top of the pyramid and living with herself. And even if she does choose to take a stand, who's to stay she'll succeed? Can the girls on top really overthrow a system that's years in the making?