Book in the Desert

Following the completion of his freshman year of college, and reeling from a series of perceived failures, introverted and insecure writer Arthur Book accepts a scholarship offer to attend a mysterious college located in the Arizona desert.

He will soon learn that he was brought to Arizona for reasons other than what he was originally told. There is a breach in the fourth wall and a writer is believed to have caused it. Because of a serialized story he wrote as a freshman, Arthur is the lead suspect.

Doubting everything he is being told, Arthur Book soon finds himself face to face with a collection of fictional characters, all of whom have taken advantage of the breach to confront the authors who created them. These characters have grievances and hold grudges against their creators.

Fearing that the characters will unite against them and kill them, the authors and administrators of Dry Gulch College push Arthur Book to finish his novel "Beauty Atrophies" and bring the character of Miles Cole to life so that he can put an end to the invasion of antagonists before they turn against the authors in force.