Parker didn't expect to find his next great magazine story sleeping off a hangover in the back seat of his car. The homeless woman, Cleo, says she never wakes after dawn, which makes Parker curious. His intuition for finding a unique story is buzzing after meeting Cleo, and he decides to interview her to find out what drove her to live on the streets.Cleo explains how the early death of her first love set the path for her life. She withdraws from the world after he dies, only to re-enter it by going to a strange club called the Beacon. At the underground club, the patrons channel spirits on the improv stage and share psychic readings in the room behind the beaded curtain. While Cleo describes her spiritual awakening, Parker wonders if she actually fell prey to mental illness.
Because of a first article Parker wrote about Cleo, another reporter is after the story, blackmailing Parker to give it up. Parker must decide how to keep his story and not let Cleo down in the process.
I came to this time through a time hole and I’m told I’m always in the present. That’s what the Yar Sirray said. She also said the time holes were destroying the Yars’ lives, that their world was plagued by them. They escaped and came here. People in this time on Earth accept the Yars as companions, but I don’t trust them. It’s something about their flat black eyes and sandy, scaly skin. Their answers to my questions are half-truths. I can tell.The people in this time have the message, so they say. It makes them happy, peaceful, all similar. They don’t know how it started. All they know is how it’s transmitted - through bodily fluids. A simple kiss can do it. Azja seems different to me. He’s not as confident, not as limited.
I want to go home, away from the people and Yars with the message. I want to go back into the past, to my time in the twentieth century. I think I found someone who can help me, Leatherwood, but he seems to have plans of his own. Azja’s not the only one who stands out from the others.
Something about the message doesn’t seem right, but I can’t figure out what it is. I need to leave this world before I give in to my desire for Azja. I can never so much as kiss him or I will be infected too, and I don’t want that. Not right now, not with what I am discovering about the Yars.
Melanie’s a budding artist always looking for the next high. She finds it one night when Sora and Josh take her on an ambulance-chasing ride. They watch a gruesome scene as the bodies are removed from the wreckage. Melanie doesn’t know why, but she is both attracted to this new pursuit and afraid of where it will take her.The chasing brings Melanie closer to the mysterious Sora, his secret past, and the darker things that happen in the city at night. Along the way Melanie must face her own demons while escaping the drug dealing business.
Join Melanie and her friends Shara, Manny, Max, Sora and Josh as they confront and chase away their own personal demons.
