Transported through a "gate" to the mysterious island of Nil, seventeen-year-old Charley has 365 days to escape--or she will die.

Trapped on the island of Nil in a parallel universe, Rives is the undisputed leader of Nil City but raiders, non-human inhabitants, and new arrivals make it ever harder to maintain order and Rives teams up with Skye, a new arrival with a mysterious past, in a desperate race to save all the residents of Nil.

Read the travails and tribulations of Proun Nul, citizen of Nil, where the only thing to believe in is Nothing. Nul keeps Nil's great bureaucratic morass free from both ideology and idealism in his job on the deconstruction ship, the Derrida, destroying belief systems before they can infect the blank ranks of unbelievers. But when Nul is falsely charged with murder, he embarks on a journey that takes him to the front lines of the war with Nil's cheery...