Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon, apprentice to his Uncle Press, a Traveler responsible for solving interdimensional conflict, tries to locate the legendary lost land of Faar which may hold the key to the survival of the water-covered territory of Cloral, which stands on the brink of war.

Bobby Pendragon's most recent traveling takes him to the familiar First Earth, where he and fellow Traveler Spader must stay on the tracks of Saint Dane and his new evil plot, while also dealing with the tumult of New York City in 1937.