The veil between the worlds has thinned, and the Fair Folk are coming through. And those who come through are seeking out humans from their "homeland"—so the Irish are getting banshees, Russians are getting bannik, Italians are getting lares. . . Now a human champion has been selected and it is his job to protect the Others—and the humans that they have chosen to live with.

Teenager Tim Desmond's life is thrown into turmoil when the gnomes, sprites, vampires, ogres, dragons, and witches that have infested his home in Brooklyn decide to take advantage of public education and turn up at Tim's high school

Tim Desmond, a mere freshman at Princeton University, must battle the forces of evil when his girlfriend disappears, his mother falls in love with a black magician, and the forces of Death and Destruction gather in Poughkeepsie