"Tom Linden, a Central Park tour guide with a masters degree in History, meets five members of the original inhabitants of Manhattan Island, who wake from four centuries of suspended animation, and seek his help to reclaim Manhattan island from the evil wizard Peter Minuit, who tricked them into a four hundred year lease. The lease is up, and they want their island back but Peter Minuit is a powerful and nasty wizard, and he won't give up his island easily." The following evening, Tom sat in a shady glen in the park in the city eating his supper. There was a thud and a jigger, and what felt like an earthquake. Tom was shocked when suddenly surrounded by Native Americans in local seventeenth century garb. Five of them. The leader of the natives was called Flying Cloud He and his tribe explain that Peter Minuit never bought the island and the lease is up. Tom, expert on Manhattan, is moved by their plight and leads them through a modern Manhattan. But Peter Minuit is a wicked sorcerer, and won't give it up so easily!