Magic is just science we don't yet understand.

John Griffin is a pretty ordinary guy with a pretty ordinary life, but when a group of strangers turns up on his doorstep, it's not long before his life and those of his friends are turned upside down.

What starts as a request for help, with the promise of a reward, results in them being stranded in a strange world full of mystery and unknown dangers. A world known only to them as Ithria.