The children being cared for at Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the children have traveled to different worlds and for some reason or other had to return. They spend their days trying to find their doors to their worlds again or trying to move on and exist in the "real" world. When the students start dying, it is up to the new girl, Nancy, and her new found friends to try to find out what is happening and why.

This was a very strange book and to be honest I am not sure if I liked it or not. The story seemed rushed and not very cohesive, jumping from the students' focus on their other-worldly travels and then jumping to the murders. No background was given on the characters and they were very two diminsional, really only made up of what their adventures made them.

I might read the next one in the series but it will have to be much better focused than this one.