"47 minutes before being taken, Miriam Cross glared up at the house." Miriam doesn't believe in magic. She knows what she wants, and is willing to work hard to get it. She studies hard. She has a job. She saves her money. She does everything she's supposed to so she doesn't mess up her life. Then someone else decides to mess it up for her. Thrown into a strange land, full of strange dangers, Miriam has to get back to the one place she wanted to escape- home.