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 man's increasingly romantic intensions Zoe realizes she must solve the murder of her mirror image if she is ever to go home, unless of course Joshua Kendal can convince her to stay.