In 1892, a Lakota boy named Makȟótaŋhaŋ, along with his friend James, risk a daring escape from an Indian boarding school. After the trip ends in disaster, all hope seems lost, until a mysterious red door leads Makhó to another world.

Elsewhere and elsewhen — 1980s Philadelphia — the life of a Black girl in a working class neighborhood comes with its share of joys and challenges. But when the arrival of stranger forces Maddie to confront uncomfortable questions about her identity, she seeks sanctuary in the land of dreams.

Meanwhile and meanwhen, Hatu’s life Ayiti, was one of abundance, the island providing for all of his and his family’s needs. But everything changed when pale-skinned foreigners showed up with their huge boats and thundersticks. After witnessing the murder of the beloved cacica, there was nowhere far enough for Hatu to run, forcing him to seek solace across the veil…

UNTIL THE MONSTERS COME is a dreampunk fantasy novel set across time, space, and dimension, where collective trauma rips open the veil between waking and dreaming, and children seek solace in a brilliant world of peace, community, abundance, and the simple pleasure of forgetting. Until a conflict older than time brings the two worlds crashing back together…