Raymond "Ray" Chapel has a place to sleep, a steady job, and a plan to get out. What he's missing is hope, until he learns that a Conversion Bureau has been hidden away in his city, along with the stalwart stallion sent to guard it--Shimmer Glass.

Both want nothing more than to reach the green fields of Equestria, and together they will overcome all resistances to make their dreams come true. Even the rules of the multiverse are stacked against them, but when the world of man meets the world of pony, a new kind of magic is born. And once it has been unleashed, nothing will ever be the same...