Alan Gardner's life was comfortably circling the drain until a chance encounter with a guerrilla artist who could create magical doorways into the secret places behind reality. Now he's stumbled into a journey with no idea what's ahead, and only the vaguest inklings of what's chasing him and his enigmatic guide.Wade Fisher's a never-will-be reporter on the verge of the biggest story of his life, a story of people not of this world hunting something that's eluded them for centuries. And it all starts with one homeless girl, her skin tattooed with the secret pathways behind the universe. What begins as the pursuit of a story becomes a race into madness in the company of a troupe calling themselves the Lost, followers of a self-proclaimed wizard pursuing his archnemesis, a creature he claims killed the gods and is now hiding somewhere in a distant world, a way that can only be found by someone who can create magical doorways. Someone who can find? the lost door.