When Kim Reynolds, a university reference librarian who has clairvoyant ability, is contacted by her friend, Lorette Campbell, a grad student in the English doctoral program, a chain of frightening events unfolds. Worried that someone is out to harm her, Lorette asks Kim to look into the possibility that an inferno collection exists at the library. After Lorette's death, when the police initially write it off as suicide, Kim begins her own investigation....

In the mid-21st century, major world cities are controlled by a formidable security force, and clairvoyant underworld cell member Paige commits acts of psychic treason before being captured by an otherworldly race that would make her a part of their supernatural army.