Otherworld: Book One: Storm

"Rounding the cart, she saw that Iosa's trap had failed by inches, due to Kaizura's advance warning and Yakage's magic. Then her momentary sense of relief caught in her throat. Several yards to the right, Shinichi lay twisted and unmoving against the nearer wall of the passage, Ai and Anomi hovering over him. The goblin was verging on tears, while the small cyclops cradled his head in her lap. Evidently, the explosion of unleashed magic Yakage had summoned had spread outward like an opening flower. Shinichi had been swept up in this and hurled into the sheer stone wall."

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The appearance of a fox amid a cataclysmic thunderstorm catapults writer Osaka-based Shinichi Aizawa and artist Midori into a world which seems to mirror the manga series they have been working on. With Shinichi mistaken for a legendary hero, they are unwillingly dispatched to prevent the reawakening of the Great Dragon.

On their journey, the pair and their unlikely new allies find their tracks dogged by an unknown foe using technology that should not exist in this world. And, along the way, the mirror begins to show cracks.