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Commonwealth is the hottest rock-n-roll band in the world.
Their music, composed by lead guitarist Colin Sinclair, is inspired by
Colin’s re-occurring dreams of a beautiful woman with brilliant red hair, who lives
in an amber city along a lavender mountain range.
Colin had no way of knowing the girl and city actually exists in the realm of dreams, or that his music is somehow drawing the city, Duncan, into the realm of reality. If this happens, the city and everyone in it will fade and die.
And Colin doesn’t know that the potentate of Duncan will order his royal alchemist to transform Colin’s talents into a golden rose, so the potentate can invade Colin’s dream and pluck the rose from Colin’s heart to cache it in the tallest turret of his palace. The potentate will also decree that Colin is an outcast dreamer from Duncan, leaving the man nothing but nightmares to comfort his sleep.
Robbed of his inspirations, tortured by sleep, Colin, on the brink of suicide, quits the band.
Commonwealth is no more.
Except there are three other members of Commonwealth, and they will have something to say about their fates.
Reginald (Reggie) Spencer III (lead vocals), Oliver (Ollie) Steele (drums), and Timothy Shannon (Ireland) want to know why Colin is quitting, but when they go to confront him, Colin is gone. He has disappeared.
In this series a band of four gifted young musicians, originally drawn together because of their talents more than friendship, must bridge their differences and unite as comrades to defeat fantastic horrors as well as slay personal demons.
Reggie, for instance, is an heir to the House of Windsor. He is also a spoiled brat who must learn to put the needs of others ahead of his own if he is to ever become a man, or win the love of the woman he cherishes.
Timothy is a handsome rake who must learn that there is more to love than one night stands, and that there are responsibilities in life that are more rewarding than scoring groupies.
Ollie is a rough and tumble Aussie who generally has his head screwed on straight, but must learn to lose his prejudice for people or things that do not have their origins on the "streets."
And Colin must learn that there is more to life than dreams and music. There is love, loss, knowledge, horror, grace, tragedy…there is LIFE. And, after he learns this, he must learn that life’s wonders hardly last forever. In fact, they are all too brief, and therefore more precious than anything.
If they can unite, these four young men will discover that the realm of dreams is real. Just as real as the realm of shadows that lies between reality and dreams. And in this real of shadows live what Arthur Machen called "dwellers in twilight." Here they be monsters who despise the realm of dreams and mankind, and would enjoy nothing more than see Colin’s music destroy Duncan and the man who unwittingly caused this cosmic catastrophe. But, so long as the golden rose is safe in its turret, the realm of dreams is safe.
Or, so it is until the night Colin dreams that the red-haired woman steals into the turret and takes the rose. Waking, Colin leaves his home in London and starts hiking north. To Scotland. Somehow, Colin knows if he reaches Scotland, he will find the woman and the rose, and his life will return to normal. Along the way, unable to remember precisely where, Colin picks up a companion, a longhaired gray cat named Shadow, who will save his life on more than one occasion.
In the realm of shadows, the monsters release their hellhounds to track down the woman and the rose and claim it for their own.
In London, Reggie, Timothy, and Ollie start searching for the missing Colin.
And, in the realm of dreams, the inhabitants of Duncan can only wait and pray that their emissaries in reality can recover the rose before it is too late.
A very tangled quest is on.