The Smiths and the Sammartinos are visiting the Outer Banks vacation home of brother and sister Jules and Victoria Thibodeaux when a mysterious stranger, Paul Drake gets dropped off by a Wing-in-Ground Effect ocean-going craft that appeared seemingly from nowhere. Drake claims to be a scout from another version of earth, dropped off at the wrong version of earth by accident. Things go well initially, at least until Drake's sister-in-law by marriage shows up with a WIG-full of pistol-packing nuns, the Godmother of the East Coast Irish mobs takes an interest and then a boatload of Cuban thugs try to kidnap the ladies. Tough times make for strange alliances and Smith finds himself in some of the strangest as his Empire and Paul Drake's gear up to fight an existential threat from yet another timeline.