Worlds of Shadow

the long version

"It began with fragmentary, incoherent psychic messages -- Earth had been found by the inhabitants of not one, but two alternate realities. Before long representatives from both of them had arrived in the suburbs of Washington DC, hoping to recruit aid in their own battles. One world was a world of magic; the other reality was a universe of spaceships and rayguns. A handful of ordinary Americans -- housewives, lawyers, interior decorators, and the like -- found themselves caught up in the transdimensional conflict. But these are not the harmless, happy-ending lands of film and fable. The sweat and blood was real, and the horrors they faced genuinely dangerous. They had little hope of triumph, or even survival ..."--Jacket.