A tale of past and present memories, a girl named Athena and her friends are tasked with unravelling the tangled conspiracies that unfold after a group of teenagers escape from a Philadelphia juvenile detention centre and are somehow involved in the three-year disappearance of two children she doesn't even know. After accidentally reading a spell, she finds herself in a wondrous world where there is an enslaved Kingdom of Morsalia, separated from the rest of the world in the Netherworld by a powerful barrier spell. She must literally battle her deepest nightmares, and can Athena find five volunteers for her book club in the three months she has allotted?
