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It all started when…

Alexandra and Cheryl saw a photo of a cool abandoned cafe.

As the mother/daughter duo often weirdly do, they began riffing on what that cafe really was. They decided it was a portal to a parallel universe where garden gnomes revolt when the sacred altar isn’t properly tended and giant worms attack innocent people—and terriers.

(The dog survives, don’t worry. This is not John Wick.)

The only way to get to this place is through an empty, dilapidated cafe in the Arizona desert on our side of the Divide. If you’re lucky enough to own a cafe card, it will take you to the One Way Cafe in a world called Sanctum.

Then came the girl and the story soon belonged to her.

Not really a girl, but a young woman. Her name is Maria Guadalupe and she makes the earth move. Literally.

Life is complicated for the bookish seventeen-year-old. For one thing, she can’t control her ability and, as a result, can’t attend school. For another, she’s in love with a ghost who can only communicate with her through a steamy bathroom mirror. And lastly, she’s on the run from a brutal man with a long reach and unlimited resources. Fortunately, she has her father with her—and her best friend, a rescue terrier named Toby.

In a last-ditch effort to protect her, Maria’s dad sends Maria and Toby to the town of Dead End in Sanctum, where her late mother was born. There, she meets the grandfathers her mother told her about. Even her backstabbing, ghostly, now ex, boyfriend follows her there, much to her dismay.

But, as much as she loves her grandparents and her new life in Dead End, Maria can’t be happy without her dad. She’ll do anything to get back home to make sure he’s safe from their shared enemy.

Anything.

Even if it means using the ability she fears.

Even if it means putting herself in danger.

Even if it means destroying the barrier between Sanctum and Earth.