Everybody knows that Earth is an uninhabitable wasteland. The last of humanity has lived on Mozaan--a healthy, domed chunk of land suspended above Earth--for almost two hundred years. Renee thought life on Mozaan was good. It had been, until the night they came. Renee and her friends each have a strange ability--which they hadn't hid well enough to save them from the Takers. When Renee's life and family are destroyed, she and her friends must live in hiding if they want to survive. But, can they hide forever? The Takers are coming, and Renee is about to discover new, jarring truths about Mozaan, Earth, and herself.

Allistaire and his younger sister Lullaby have had their lives ruined by the newest trickery of the witches. Wandering the forest they find a disraught and despair filled military. With the kingdom of The Blackwood corrupted from within it falls on Allistaire and Lullaby to save the woods from being sacrificed to the wickermen.

Stella lives a life of disappointment. Though every aspect of her life is hopeless, she wouldn't trade it for anything else, believing there is comfort in normality. If it's one thing she fears, it is change. Stella is gifted with seeing glimpses of the future. Others would love this gift - who wouldn't want to see what's to come? The prophetic outlooks she sees however, are distressing futures; the kind that reveal death, destruction, and despair. Stella is thus convinced that foresight isn't a gift, but a curse. Lately, Stella has been dreaming of a world unlike her own. In this world she sees fire, blackness and demise. These visions contain voices that seem to be yearning for her, calling to her...but all Stella ever did was mind her own business, even if that business was inside of her own head. When a strange being visits Stella, he claims not to be from her world, "Blue Gem." He requests that she answer the pleas in her visions that reflect the voices of people from his world who are in desperate need of her help. Stella is too frightened to help her own world to begin with, how can she be expected to save another?