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Jax Epoch, was once a disenchanted 16-year-old girl who longed for the magic
presented in the books she read growing up; now she longs for control of
her brand-new, far-from-normal reality ...
The trouble begins, when one afternoon while tagging along with her boyfriend Adam and his troublemaking friends, Jax reluctantly ends up breaking into a quarantined office
building in midtown Manhattan. Inside, the troublemakers become troublefinders, as they
come across a lab filled with animals in cages and accidentally let one animal out. While
Our hapless heroine is transported to the Realmsend, an ever-changing series of corridors that separate alternate realms of existence. Thanks to a stack of post-it notes that she had "borrowed," Jax is able to leave a breadcrumb inspired trail, and do some exploring. Oddly enough, Jax finds herself in a dimension more lifeless than her own, as she is surrounded by endless fields of grass, with only an abandoned wooden shack before her. But to her delight, within the shack she discovers a set of magic-looking boots and gloves - along with an ancient instruction manual -all of which seem to make the trip worthwhile. Her curiosity getting the best of her, she takes the items, but leaves a note saying she promises to return them ...eventually. Suddenly, her world has changed...
When she wakes up the next day to find a giant red dragon flying over her Manhattan apartment Jax realizes that her otherworldly actions were more than just a mere misdemeanor: By taking the magical items out of their natural environment she has set in motion a chain of events known as the QUICKEN FORBIDDEN. Everything magic that had once only existed in other dimensions has now leaked, into her unsuspecting and decidedly un-ready world, making sure Jax's life will never be boring again. Dragons join birds in flight over the streets of Manhattan, marshmallows talk back, robots rampage through the sewers, the nation is treated to a blizzard in July, and Adam suddenly dumps her. Worst of all, Jax is put on trial for bringing about the end of the world, with only a robot lawyer to defend her ... |
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the others attempt to clean up the mess, Jax takes off after the escapee (a white rabbit, no less) down a narrow hallway. Not seeing that the rabbit disappeared in mid- air, Jax accidentally trips on a computer power cable and falls into a interdimensional portal that looks like bizarre water ripples.
After finding her way back home, it doesn't take Jax too long to notice that everything appears to be slightly... off. At first it's little things like her parents and high school teachers yelling at her and then people claiming she had heated conversations with them during the time she was gone. Jax begins to realize that someone... or something... had been living her life in her absence and that over a week has passed.