Things are always happening to John Tinker and the rest of himself. This time it started rather innocently with a house guest, a number member of the Grandeville Police Department, Ms. Braidna Chin Lee, the daughter of the Number One Cook at Chen's Chinese. But, as it seems to happen, things out there in the universe of universes get involved. And one again, grumbling and mumbling to himself, Tinker finds himself deeply involved in a complicated scheme not of his own choosing.

D. Grant, a moderately successful and moderately well-known author learned, not all that too long ago, that she was really one of The Feyra, The Hidden Ones, a strangely skilled sub-species of Homo sapiens, called "the people" by The Feyra. She also learned that her true name was Daliera Fontala, called by some Daliera of The Fontala. And as things so often happen, she finally learned what her name really meant, and in the process found that she was becoming involved in certain activities of the people, activities that The Feyra have spent thousands of years avoiding.

John Tinker, once again entangled with the affairs of the universe of universes, finds himself assisting an individual from ancient mythology, much to everyone's surprise.

D. Grant, a moderately successful author among the people who is also known as Daliera Fontala, Head of House Dartha Na (of The Feyra) becomes deeply involved in a series of activities of the people. In the process she saves a Feyra House from destruction and starts, hopefully, The Feyra in a slightly new direction while still remaining The Hidden Ones.

A concise history of the Chinese in California, Oregon, and Idaho from 1848-1880, discussing why they came, what they did once they were arrived, and the reactions to them during this period.