If twelve-year-old Rafe Ryder ever finds a way back to Earth, he's going to give his parents a serious piece of his mind. They concocted the brilliant idea to ship him off from his home in England to Maine to attend the prestigious Ryder-Knight Academy, and, as a result, he's now stuck in the most perilous place in the universe-an elite angelic training facility in a world known as Mystfira.
As Rafe discovers unlikely friendships with angels, fairies, and leprechauns, he realizes Mystfira has its charms-even if it rains fire and hosts the universe's deadliest creatures. Where else could he attend school in a magnificent palace, catch a fairy cant, and watch angels prove themselves in Adomis trials?
If only he and his friends hadn't blundered upon a sinister underworld plot to gain control of the heavens and Earth. Now, like it or not, if Rafe wants to go home, he'll have to find a way to save it first.