Debra Sylver

Caitlin is still a new Guardian, a member of a group with magical powers that protect the Treaty and order in the alternate reality she recently started visiting called Otherwhere.  Her first two trips there were no walks in the park, involving conflicts with witches and shifters, and imprisonment by the faeries.  There is still much she doesn't understand about this new reality and her role in it, and her attraction to the Guardian leader, Jaeden, confuses things. Caitlin was looking forward to spending some time with him in her normal reality, and pretending, even if only for a short time, that she had a normal life. 

But Caitlin's mother is ill and she has to go home to Montreal. She takes Jaeden with her, but her past life rears its head and everything goes off the rails.  Before anything can be fixed, Cat and Jay are back in Otherwhere, where things are just as tumultuous—Luke Collins shows up with a warning about someone trying to overthrow the Treaty, the faeries ask for the Guardians' help, and Caitlin makes a shocking discovery about herself.

Caitlin doesn't know whether her fragile relationship with Jaeden will survive warlocks, traitors, faerie artifacts, ex-boyfriends and girlfriends, watchers and jungle battles. But she can't afford to focus on Jaeden. Liam has disappeared, and it takes all of Caitlin's courage and determination, and her fellow Guardians' help, to find out where he is and try to get him back.  But it's not Liam that the kidnappers really want—he is just the bait.