In the near future Earth is plagued by genetic viruses and malicious nannydrones. What's fourteen-year-old Nick and his friends to do? Escape through time to a fantastic moon populated with fire-breathing winged lions and automaton-legged Merfolk, of course.

When Nick finds wealthy shoppers stepping over the body of his dying refugee friend, Jermaine, on the way to their next shoe sale, he decides that it's time to runaway to the moon, and his friends are going with him. But there's a catch. This moon is in the past; it's teeming with magical creatures, and its merfolk believe Nick will save them from the thousand-eyed monsters haunting their fortresses. When Nick finds Moon is inhabited with blood-thirsty gorgons, man-eating pirate ships, and fire-breathing winged lions, he realizes the fantastic can be just as treacherous as the future. He has led his friends into greater peril.