The Tower exists in all worlds at once, and sometimes it moves people from one world to another. No one truly understands why, but the common belief is that those who are taken are destined to achieve something great — or die trying. Maximilian never asked to become a Chosen of the Tower, but the higher powers had other plans. Now the young man must find his place in a strange world nothing like his own — a world of magic, demons, and things far stranger still.