You've settled in for a night of the latest RPG game and the GamesMaster adds a cool new twist, reading a spell from a dusty book unearthed at a used book store. When you wake, lying on the grass looking up at the two moons floating in the sky, you realize you are no longer 'playing a game,' indeed, you are now living it! The secret dream of every gamer becomes all too real for four gamers as the creatures that here-to-fore only existed in their collective imaginations are now, not only real, but coming after them! Welcome to the Alterverse! How to get back home is only one of the problems these four face as they meet and interact with sorcerers, Orcs, mad wizards, intriguing new friends and a world without all the conveniences to which they are accustomed. Relationships form, friendships are tested and old alliances are broken as the quest becomes a multi-layered battle for survival. Written with such expertise that the reader is drawn into the story and won't come up for air until the very last word.

Gamers who like reading books behind gaming, any science fiction buff who plays games (or not) and anyone who would just like to enjoy a really good read!

The voice of the characters within the book is such that the reader is literally pulled into the story.

I don't like having to wait for the next installment!! I wish he wrote faster!

have this happen to me! It was so much fun, as a former D&D player to vicariously experience a game made real.

Entranced. I felt as if I could see, hear, taste and smell the various elements of the book. The places, the adventure almost play out in the mind's eye as if watching a movie.

is a science fiction/fantasy writer who dabbles in other genres as ell. he has a fine touch with a pen, an inventive mind and a diabolical sense of humor.

If one is a gamer, it is a must read. If one likes fantasy, it is a marvelous place to visit.

Fantastic book, complete with maps and occasional illustrations of various places within. There is magic and fantasy as well as dreams, nightmares, pathos and love.

Flat out great book, that is an intriguing read as well as being full of twists and turns, magic of the finest degree, time travel and adventure. The book is full of excellent characters who are believable and real and more, although of a fantasy genre is does not fall prey to the often found problem of being too far out of the norm. The author has a way of making the reader not only believe in the improbable, but embrace it!

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