While we sleep and dream, we are all transported to The Deep World , an ethereal universe where the primal forces of Evil and Good are locked in an eternal battle for supremacy in the physical world.In the novel, Colin, a mixed-race teenager from Kentucky, battles demons from his white father, who has turned to white supremacy, residual anger from his parents' divorce years ago, and the inability to identify with black or white students. In Northern Virginia, Madison is a high school sophomore who is confused about her shifting sexuality, shunned by a lifelong friend because of it, and convinced her father is cheating on her mother. In Colorado, David is an introverted computer geek who just happens to have two extroverted, overachieving parents who do not understand him at all. Through cyber snooping, David discovered financial misconduct in his father's law firm.One night, all three teens go to sleep and are awakened by three Dimiseus, a Greek warrior from the golden age of Athens; Ahuic, a female Aztec warrior who battled the Spanish invaders; and Mahmoud, a general in the army of an Arab warrior-queen Mavia, who battled Goth armies about a century before the fall of Rome.The Deep World is the first in a series of novels about this universe composed of Defenders, Guardians, Marauders, Ravagers, the Sentinels, and The Gatekeeper. In each successive novel, new teenage characters will be anointed Guardians and trained to defend the physical world against the incursion of evil.