What do you call a hotel that is not a hotel? Freelance magician Ayesha Swanson, her partner Aimi Underwood, and her bodyguard Mister Mo, are about to find out as they are dispatched on a diplomatic mission to a mysterious race on the fringes of human society that somehow goes awry.

Finding themselves trapped in a fictional construct filled to the brim with bounty hunters tasked with bringing them in, Ayesha and Aimi find both their relationship and their magical skills tested as an old acquaintance of Mister Mo’s makes her presence known.