Long ago, there was a princess so fair that every lord and hero in all the land lusted for her heart, so her father did what any reasonable father would-he cut out her heart and placed it in the highest chamber of a secret tower filled with monsters and deadly traps.
Those few who were wise and bold enough to solve the riddle of the tower's location and venture inside were never seen or heard from again. As the years passed, the quest appeared more and more futile. As the decades passed, it appeared to be lunacy. As the centuries passed, the princess's heart was all but forgotten . . .
Until now.
The Death Knight, Dan of Uptown, has been charged with an impossible ultimatum: retrieve the princess's heart-or die. Pursued by fanatical enemies, faced with a challenge too daunting for the greatest heroes of the realm, and left without options, Dan and his friends are about to find out exactly why Everybody Hates Tower Dungeons.
You'll hate him too; Until you don't. . .
This is the story of Dan-a high school dropout who plays guitar in a heavy metal band and has a minimum wage job wearing a mouse costume. He's not exactly destined for great things.
Then Dan wakes up in another world-a world where science never progressed past the Middle Ages, and the laws of physics have been replaced by role-playing game rules. Dan makes some mistakes-some big mistakes. Dan becomes a Death Knight: a walking personification of death and darkness.
Now, Dan must fight monsters, zealots, and demons just to survive, and he must do it all alone-because everybody hates Death Knights.
