That clock can't be right. When Elise wakes up the morning after her birthday celebration, she's surprised to find herself in her bedroom. Last she can remember, she had fallen asleep next to her best friends at her slumber party in her basement, and it was October. But now she's alone, and her phone says it's April 8. Elise doesn't understand. How could she have woken up six months later? No one else is acting like anything strange has happened,...

When eighteen-year-old art student Susan Arkshaw arrives in London, she hopes to find the father she doesn't remember with the help of crime boss Frank Thringley. Unfortunately Frank is killed by Merlin, a magical left-handed bookseller, in front of Susan and Susan realizes that she might have more in common with the bookseller than she first thought. Susan and Merlin work together in order to find the magical grail that is the source of the left-handed...