After 40 years of running their community arts space The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a pair of celebrity performance artists from China come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street, catapulting big changes in their small town.

The Bread Factory is the scene for rehearsals of the Greek play Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theater, with the town invaded by bizarre tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers. There is a new normal in Checkford, if it is even really Checkford any longer.

A former DEA agent and a former undercover operative revisit their romance during a fateful weekend in Taipei, unaware of the dangerous consequences of their past.

In 1890s Malacca, Li Lan finds herself in the afterlife and becomes mired in a mystery linked to the sinister, deceased son of a wealthy family.

The story assumes that a candidate from the pro-war faction wins the presidential election, leading to an agitated situation in the Taiwan Strait unlike anything seen before. An unexpected incident occurs when a Yun-8 reconnaissance aircraft crosses the South China Sea and crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the east coast of Taiwan.
Under the pretext of search and rescue, the Chinese side mobilized many naval and air forces. On the Zero Day of the PLA’s central landing, as unrest within Taiwan escalates, the situation enters its final countdown.

Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.