Fenton was only a "tweenman. without body or shadow: his

body lay back in the laboratory where Dr. Garnock was

experimenting with a new drug. Yet Fenton was in the fairy

world of the Alfar. helplessly watching the Faerie Queen

of the Alfar attacked and captured by the hideous, goblinlikc

ironfolk, And he was fading, irresistibly being drawn back

to his body.

He had to return to save the Faerie Queen and to save his

own world from the ironfolk. But not even Sally lobeck

would believe him. Garnock refused him more drug and

confiscated the talisman that would have let him return in his

body as a worldwalker, free to move through the Gateways

between worlds.

His only hope lay in finding the mysterious House between

the Worlds. But the House could only be found when and

where it wanted. And apparently, it didfft want Fenton

to find it!