Lerka arrived on Long Earth as a student exchange student and had no intention of participating in local sinister intrigues. Moreover, unlike our Primordial Earth, magic operates here, and magical creatures hostile to humans also live here, so any attempt to get involved in the local showdown is fraught with very significant troubles. However, the Summer Sovereign, the head of the Long Earth, decided to pay a visit to the Abundance-Nikes supermarket, where Lerka worked part-time, and from that moment on, intrigues and troubles fell like a cornucopia. And on a serious scale: losing your life while the game has begun is not the worst thing that can happen...