Making friends doesn&8217;t come easily to Zoë. She&8217;s always been the outsider, watching the &8216;in&8217; crowd from afar. So when beautiful, popular Laura Harrell notices her, Zoë is desperate to impress. Soon Laura lets Zoë into a secret. In the woods behind her house is a hidden doorway to another world: a world Laura & her brother Alex treat as their playground. But Zoë quickly realizes that what&8217;s going on in the city of Shattershard is no game. War is about to break out &8211; & Alex is supplying weaponry from their own world. Forced to question Laura&8217;s true reasons for bringing her to Shattershard, Zoë no longer knows where her loyalties lie. As her old life slips further away, she is starting to see that getting into Shattershard was easy &8211; but getting out may be impossible.