Continuing their adventures from The Time Dancer escapade, Esmarelda, George Drumm, and Sylvestor the cat have their hands (and paws) full with with unwelcoming Witches, shape-shifting Familiars, half-mad Magicians, and inquisitive New-Agers.

"The participants were like children to me, harmlessly playing at games they knew nothing about. I loved them and pitied them. Poor souls had no idea how many turns of the Spiral lay ahead before they would turn the corner to reclaim this world of magic they vaguely remember and deeply desire. They felt close to it in Piper Canyon, and indeed they were. Uncomfortably close."

The coming of the Summer Solstice Harmony Convention to Piper Canyon has increased the leakage between parallel timelines, there below The Top of The World where Future meets Past, and our rational world turns into a world of magic. With Robyn and her belly dance troupe joining the Harmony Convention on one side, and time-traveling Gypsies Esmarelda and George Drumm approaching the mystical Goathorn Mountains on the other, Brooks, Minder of the Knot and the Loophole, must work valiantly to keep everyone where they belong and prevent Time from unraveling. Before he is done, he will expose the dark history of the five sisters of the Goathorns Coven, the recent transgressions of their transmogriphying Familiars, the secret lives of the Two Magicians, and his own deepest desires.