Introduction: The brain tumour was slowly killing him. For James, his only hope for survival lay beneath the surgeon鈥檚 knife. On the operating table, he counted down from ten and waited for what might be the end鈥?hen he awakes, he finds himself in another world poised on the brink of catastrophe. With the age of the magician long since dead, a supernatural force threatens to engulf the land and enslave its people. With the help of a local Lord鈥檚 feisty daughter, Leander, James must brave the forests of the Gelding in search of the only man who holds the key to their salvation.It is no longer only his life in the balance, but the fate of an entire world....