A group of entities attempting to reduce the universe to chaos, a power-hungry sorcerer whose aspirations exceed his capabilities, the Whisperer, a creature desirous of crossing a boundary into our universe and feeding on human minds, a city become sentient, and Janet, Lynn, Jerry and the rest whose mission it is to prevent the worlds from collapsing – these are the ones striving against one another in a struggle to shape the worlds.
Dennis Pritchard, sorcerer and politician, believes he can control a powerful creature from the far side of the boundary separating the three worlds from chaos. If successful, he can use the Whisperer to alter minds, thereby leveraging himself into the highest office in America.
Oscar Middleton appears human. He is anything but. A member of The Opposition, he is prepared to assist Dennis for reasons of his own. Those reasons involve reducing the worlds to chaos.

In Colin McKenzie resides the consciousness of a city become sentient along with the thoughts of millions of people. Of course it has driven him quite insane, but he possesses a terrible power which Dennis would like to channel for his own purposes.
Jerry, Lynn, Janet and the rest of the team have been given an assignment. Find one homeless person somewhere in a city of millions. Should they fail, the boundary itself may collapse and flood the worlds with nightmarish creatures. But both magic and mayhem are coupled to prevent their success.
And locked in the basement of Dennis's house, behind walls of steel, concrete and magic, resides an enslaved hobgoblin, living on occasional scraps of food and pure, white-hot fury.