Everness... On earth, this is a house lost in the provincial wilderness of America. In the realm of dreams, this place is called the High House, which rises on the coast of the Sea of Restless Darkness, the last bastion of magic in our world, a guard post on the border of reality and sleep, erected in the time of Merlin.

The guardians of dreams keep the gates closed between the waking world and the world of nightmares, their watch lasts for a hundred years, and the number of guards becomes less and less. The forces of evil are preparing for a decisive assault on the last bastion. After all, if the fortress falls and the two worlds merge into one, the Earth will plunge into the abyss of nightmares...

John Wright’s book is closest in spirit to the creative style of the great world creator Roger Zelazny.