It was a world of tiers and layers - the Amerind level, the Garden of Eden level, the Talanac, the Atlantean - a universe of green skies and fabled beasts. It was the playground-cosmos of the Lord Jadawin, with trans-gravitational gates to the other levels and other worlds.

But now those gates were being sabotaged to permit the entry of an invading force of ''Bellers'' - human bodies housing the transferred minds of rebel Lords - and their minions, who were seeking two things: total domination of every lord''s private cosmos, now that they had achieved immortality, and the life of Kickaha the Trickster, who knew too much...