Book One in the Croma Series Emma Whitestone is a teenage girl with anger issues whose only attachment is her best friend, Mary Clarkson. When Mary is kidnapped, Emma is forced to throw her anger aside and team up with a gang of inter-dimensional demons and angels who both need Mary and Emma to join them in a war for survival. All throughout, Emma is plagued by moral conflicts and a recurring dream involving the death of her mother... and a strange sense she may be closer to the enemy than with her own.