A name is a burden for a great many. For fourteen year old Alexander Michaels, his entire name is just that, a burden. Heck, his entire life is a burden. A monstrous father, absent mother, cruel stepmother and step brothers who hated him. He had never so much heard a kind word about himself.  Nothing seemed to be going right, not even after he finally freed himself and entered foster care. No one would listen to him, what he wanted, what he needed. All that kept him going was book, stories of the magical and mystical, freeing him from the terrors of his mundane life. It was barely enough...  Until it was everything.  Offered a chance to tap into the very dreams that kept him going, a take up a life in a whole knew world, he jumps at the chance. Only, as with every story, not everything is as it seems.