An outcast teenager becomes the unlikely leader of an alien universe on the brink of collapse. She didn't ask for the job — and they didn't ask for her.

A college student pulling an all-nighter in an empty science lab is pricked by an unknown needle. What follows is a spiral between reality and something far stranger — and the entity that seems to be following him may not be the worst of it.

A teenage girl arrives in a foreign country barely speaking the language. She finds a close community of others like her, and together they make their way in a new world.