When all the dust settles from this Gathering the entire world will be watching.

The 50 year Gathering of the far-flung Tinker clans should have been the typical coming together of the most creative people on earth; food, fun, amazing crafts, hopefully a few new marriages between clans and a colorful fair.

But this is not a typical Gathering. This year the Tinker clans are invaded by Renaissance re-enactors, Civil War enthusiasts, a carnival midway set out in a farm field and hippies. No-one invited the hippies.

For the three young members of the MacRae clan this Gathering holds unexpected adventures including Viking raids, the sky above filled with floating villages, a battle between the clans, a tornado, and Mongols. Honest to God Mongols riding through a midwestern tornado.

And if the MacRae’s survive all this they just might find out they are the most extraordinary Tinkers in generations. Changing the world kind of extraordinary.

Welcome to the fascinating lives of the Tinker clans, a traveling people who have lived at the edges of society for thousands of years, endlessly innovative but rarely important. But when their world comes into contact with ours everything changes.