Spellbinder is a fantasy adventure series about a suburban teenager, Paul Reynolds, who finds himself accidentally marooned in a world parallel to his own. It is a world where the Industrial Revolution never happened, where a powerful group called Spellbinders are in charge and where the people are controlled by manipulation of their fear and ignorance. Immediately recognised as an outsider, Paul, unable to return home, finds himself in terrible danger - when the Spellbinders discover his superior scientific and technological knowledge.