"What was this place? Was I crazy? Or was I crazy before, back in L.A.?
Was my real life some sort of dream? Was this hell reality?"
Austin Lively is a struggling, disillusioned screenwriter whose life is
suddenly changed forever when he opens a door and is unwittingly
transported to a fantastical medieval realm. Austin finds himself
wielding a bloody dagger while standing over a very beautiful and very
dead woman. Bewildered and confused, he is seized by castle guards and
thrown in a dungeon. Just when he begins to fear the worst he is
suddenly transported back to reality in LA.
Did that really just happen? Has he gone insane? Was it all a dream?
Did he have a brain tumor? Desperate for answers, sets out to find them
and discovers that the mystery can only be unlocked by a strange piece
of fiction that holds the truth about the magical kingdom. But he isn't
the only person searching for the missing manuscript, and his rivals
will stop at nothing to get it first. To complicate matters more, Austin
soon discovers that he has no control over when he passes between
worlds, and finds himself out of trust for even the simple things, like
walking through doorways.
Stuck between dual realities -charged for a murder he doesn't recall in
one and running from a maniacal billionaire who's determined to kill him
in another- Austin's monotonous life has become an epic adventure of
magic, murder, and political intrigue in both the New Republic of
Galiana and the streets of Los Angeles California.
