Gregory Fischer is burned out in more ways than one. He's a depressed chain smoking veteran living in his best friend's attic, hating his freelance work, and only motivated by numbing himself out with his smokes and as many books as he can read. A lifestyle he's lived for nearly a decade now with no will to change it. At least until he gets a job offer from a place called the Black Briar Library, a magical organization with the intent of collecting all the stories in existence.  Now he has a magic book, a boss that throws him at worlds very different from his own, and most importantly hope enough to get out of bed in the morning.