What would you do if you wrote a book, and then found it had come to life, and you were in it? Jesse Frost finds this out, when a second portal opens under the surface of Winterbourne Pond, leading into a world that turns out to be his book....taking place. But his book does not have a happy ending. As the Author, Jesse determines to destroy his own story and save his world. But his brash playmate Florian Paddock, who unbeknownst to all of them has Mather blood in his veins, has resurrected the Wand of Jayhaya and become a sorcerer of his own, determined to bring about the tragic ending.