Zoe Crane puts her hand on a magic crystal ball. After a strange, star-tossed dream she wakes on a different planet. This is a parallel world on the other end of the universe, full of cars with running boards and gangsters wearing pin striped suits. Here she meets Joshua Kendal district attorney; handsome, intelligent, and rich. He is every romance novel hero ever written. Stumbling to adjust to this strange world and this self confident manâtes increasingly romantic intensions Zoe realize...

Claire Anderson, recently successful screen writer/novelist living in Toronto, witnesses a strange sight. A nude man walks down her pre-dawn street and then vanishes.While still struggling with the reality of what she has seen Claire's agent hands her a good reason to get out of town. She is given a short speaking tour of three colleges in the American south. Here she encounters a strange fundamentalist Christian cult and an FBI agent who is searching for his missing brother.