Mason Loveless has found success by using his imagination, but his marriage and his personal life are falling apart. In order to forget it, he spends his afternoons drinking and fishing with his cousin, Eric.But another world is calling: Calliope - a beautiful and distant land lying on the brink of destruction.Calliope is not only in jeopardy, it's real, and Mason and Eric find themselves in the middle of a metaphysical war very far from home.In order to save Calliope from annihilation, they must sacrifice everything they hold dear on Earth . . .Mainly, their own lives . . .