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 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.