When Alice is warned her day is going to being trying, she has no idea that her whole world is going to be turned upside down. Again. There is no reality more frightening to her than being forced to serve in the paramilitary branch of the PPK. No part of the paramilitary is more brutal than Aries squad. As she stares at her new badge, her new Aries badge, that reality manifests from her nightmares. She’s tossed into a mission that parallels her world, where nothing is as it seems. A paracosm stronger than any recorded by the PPK is holding a member of the Aries squad in its grasp. Alice takes comfort that her first Aries mission is a rescue mission. Friends and enemies blur. Desires come on the wind. Choices hold consequences that will ripple through all realities and time. But are the choices really hers to make, or is that part of an illusion created by someone stronger than the paracaster, someone closer, and deadlier?