“Tell the story, wanderer...” This is the strange price that the mysterious “key keeper” must pay for passage through the Gates - interplanetary portals through which tourists and adventurers, runaway teenagers and tired fathers of families, criminals hiding from the law pass and hunters hired to return the fugitives. How many Gates will the best of earth’s hunters have to go through, trying to find a girl who has disappeared without a trace? From world to world! From planet to planet. From history to history!