Alistair McNash desperately wants to be an author, and has worked tirelessly at this goal while working a dead-end office job. Then one day everything finally turns around - only for him to be summoned to another world by a witch's spell!

Now in the fantastical land of Ostium, Alistair and the witch responsible search for a way to get him back home. But they soon learn that Ostium is facing its own problems...