Anne desires to be a writer, but admits she has no imagination, no experience, and only knows what she had read in books. She decides life should he orderly and well-planned and gives up on dreams of romance and adventure. This is when she suddenly meets the mysterious and annoying, Jules Allan and his dog, Sam. She and her cat, Josephine are swept up in an adventure and taken to the land of Homecoming. Here she is mistaken for Alice of Alice in Wonderland and threatened by a Gray Queen and her ally the Ombudsman, attacked by flying pirates and jealous girlfriends, pestered by pixies, and for the life of her had no idea if any of this is real or the product of her imagination except she knows she has no imagination, so maybe it is real. And the boy Jules Allan, is he real or something that she had made up.