Fifteen year-old Thomas Wisby was enjoying summer vacation on a ranch where he lived alone with his mother. He was looking forward to the start of soccer practice a few weeks away, but, he didn t know that his life was about to change, as he embarks on a magical adventure that takes him where only dreams were thought to go. He didn t know what happened to his father, who went missing five years ago, but he was going to find out, and have to come to grips with many things he didn t know, including who he really was and where he truly belonged. To Thomas, magic was only illusions performed by magicians. He was about to discover how wrong he was. There was a place waiting for him, so far removed from his world, that it would be challenging for any normal person to comprehend. But Thomas wasn t normal."