"Come on, let's move!" said Jerry and they all hurried back up the hill from which they had descended. For one brief instant Janet thought it might actually be that easy. Certainly they had been noticed but nothing had happened but then she felt the ground quiver and, looking back, she saw the sky begin to move.
In the high arctic, Nac Belaskan Terrob Salermy has taken possession of a shaman and captured a Winter Elf. He wants the power from the latter to rule the Mid-World but he's not adverse to obtaining power across both worlds and he might be able to accomplish just that. The Guardians have dispatched Janet, Jerry, Lynn and the others to rescue the Winter Elf but against the power of a Nac Belaskan what can an apprentice witch and her motley band possibly accomplish?
Set against a backdrop of Cold War political maneuvering in the 1960's, this second book in the Mid-World series mingles magic, myth and a confrontation that might result in World War III.