Austin Lively is a struggling, disillusioned screenwriter whose life is changed forever when he opens a door and is unwittingly transported to a fantastical medieval realm that has been divided by an evil lord and his rebellion. Now, stuck between dual realities ¿charged for a murder he doesn¿t recall in one and running from a maniacal billionaire whös 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.