On an unusually mild Sunday evening in March, assistant professor of English, Schuyler "Skye" King, picks up his telephone...and hears a friend being brutally murdered by a demon somewhere across town. But while the victim, Grant, may be dead, he is far from gone - turning up the following day on previously mailed software to usher a cynical and unsuspecting Skye into MagicNet. The brainchild of a brilliant renegade hacker/warlock named Lloyd Merlin...