A devastating head injury leaves seventeen year old Sophie Ryan lingering in a coma for a week. Haunting memories of a protective ever watchful presence give her cause to doubt her grasp on reality. A torrential series of events reveals a parallel world where the fragile boundaries of life are stretched into eternity. She discovers not only has she been endowed with unique abilities, but that there are others like herself. Including the long thought dead nineteen eighties punk rock star, Mitchell Kingsbury. Soon she is drawn into a war against a ravenous force that hungers for the very essence of humanity. Among the mysterious inhabitants who claim dominion of the parallel realm is an ancient fabled warrior, one who offers Sophie not only protection, but a love that will endure the ages to come.