Eric Albright, a 26-year-old journalist, lived an ordinary life until the moment when a ghostly creature from another world appeared to him in the dead of night and said: “Shadow, you are being called” and until he noticed a small red door under the railway bridge not far from his house, which he entered... This world between worlds is called Levaal. Here, among the dragon gods languishing in heavenly prisons, unrest is growing. Here, from a great white fortress, the sinister Lord Wu rules with an iron fist, driven mad by the thought that he could stand on par with the gods. Together with the Archmage, he almost won a victory over the Free Cities. But now Eric and his friend Stuart Casey find themselves in this world. And Eric has yet to learn that not all doors need to be open.