Things are always happening to John Tinker and the rest of himself. This time it started rather innocently with a house guest, a number member of the Grandeville Police Department, Ms. Braidna Chin Lee, the daughter of the Number One Cook at Chen's Chinese. But, as it seems to happen, things out there in the universe of universes get involved. And one again, grumbling and mumbling to himself, Tinker finds himself deeply involved in a complicated scheme not of his own choosing.