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.

Bobby finds himself in the territory of Cloral, a world entirely covered by water, which is nearing a huge disaster. He learns that it is up to him to help rid the area of marauders and locate the legendary lost land of Faar, which may hold the key to Cloral's survival.