A girl who has a secret that even she doesn't know about. A name that has not been spoken of for thousands of years. A past that no one wants to shed light on. A love so strong nothing can penetrate it, not even death. Aezalia Brandybuck and Bilbo Baggins have been childhood friends since they can remember. Little do they know that a mysterious man will soon test their friendship when he sends them on an adventure. On the way Aezalia learns things about herself that she thought impossible. Can she prove to Gandalf that she is not the girl who he says she is, or has she always known of this long expected adventure?

Seventeen-year-old April Parker wakes up in an underground facility, a shock bracelet on her wrist and a five-day countdown on the clock. Dozens of other teens share her inexplicable fate, but their unseen captors never intervene no matter how brutal conditions become. When the ruthless - and unnervingly magnetic - Marcus seizes control, April's trauma-forged instinct is to lay low. But protecting her friends drives her to bargain with the boy she should fear most - a boy whose reality fractures with every tick. Then the countdown ends, and the real terror begins. Powers ignite. Alliances shatter. And predators are born. And with a saboteur among them determined to keep the doors closed forever, escaping what comes next may be the only way to survive it.