After Stone's grand-nephew experienced bad nightmares in an old house, Stone investigated and fell into a deep, dark, parallel shadow realm under a full moon, with a mad-man on the loose. The experience led to a closer look at the sub-parallel and a parallel history that followed a very different path, with old ghosts and deeper shadows than Stone had ever encountered before.

It all began with more bad dreams. Zek Stone was fairly busy with one of the biggest projects he had ever worked on, but after the bad dreams wouldn't stop bothering him, he investigated and found himself in another sub-parallel of Aton 5 where things were different. Upon further investigation, he found that his sub-parallel's family history had gone through some drastic changes, after his step-brother was killed in 1994, and the mystery had never been resolved.

Even after he managed to resolve the problem with the nephew, Stone found himself still under the influence of the shadows, lost in the sub-parallels of Aton 5, up against the unknown corners of the multiverse. With his knowledge of "Parallel Theory", he navigated through the sub-parallels, trying to get back to the Par Median at Aton 5.785, while dreaming about the home-parallel, and wondering about the mystery of the multiverse.