Tom Taylor is the son of Wilson Taylor, an ultra-successful novelist whose series of books about a boy wizard (based on his son Tom) has swept the world by storm. But after vanishing, apparently abandoning his son, Tom Taylor wants little more than to shake off his father’s books and be his own man.

But there’s something not quite right about Tom Taylor. Many elements about his life and his background don’t seem to add up. Questioning at a convention panel leads to an international furor where he is declaimed as a fraud. But when the evil vampire from his Dad’s books kidnaps him, intending to kill him on a live internet feed, he finds himself closer to his fictional namesake than he’s comfortable with.