They had been standing around the lamp, looking at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected to hear a sepulchral voice behind them.

"You called me?"

They swung around.

Standing looking down on them was a tall, powerful figure in long smoky green robes and a pale-blue turban. He repeated, "You called me? I am the genie Hythloday, the servant of the lamp."

A bizarre and terrifying plot to rule New York City means extreme danger for the Austin family and their friends, all of whom are targets for corruption -- or destruction.