Justin Imperiale is running his Kingdoms. He has also found a way to create interstellar Gates that allow a person to walk from planet to planet. Suddenly, an enormous sea creature is sighted off of his Kingdom of The Islands. Justin has to figure a way to deal with the beast. Justin then figures a way to take revenge on those who dumped the sea beast in Corin. His Kingdom of Mesodania is attacked by revolutionaries, led by one who calls himself the True Prophet. Justin finds a way to fight back, with model airplanes. He then discovers that the Mesodanian revolutionaries were armed by the North Continent nation of Pors. Justin then figures a way to take revenge on those who armed the revolutionaries. Justin is then confronted by a young lady with paranormal powers. The incident leads him to realize that Arvion is still after him and leads to the discovery of spies. The nation of Ruthenia provides most of the natural gas, used to heat homes and generate electricity, in the Old World North Continent nations. Suddenly, Ruthenia wants to double the price of their natural gas. Justin figures a way to provide replacement natural gas, for his North Continent Kingdoms. However, if he can figure out how to supply the other North Continent nations, he can probably acquire several more North Continent Kingdoms, in return for solving the problem. Justin does find a source for natural gas, but lacks a way to get to the source. However, he thinks back to something that Arvion, his enemy, does and just maybe Justin can figure out how to do the same thing. Any solution will involve the understanding of higher dimensional spaces, above the three physical spaces, in which the people of Corin live. Along the way, Justin figures out how to set up a perfect prison. His solution is cheap and escape proof. However, he then has to deal with pipeline bandits. One night, Justin is again visited by a ghost, or at least a creature who lives in higher dimensional space. The ghost reviews some of what Justin has done and tells Justin that some of the powerful beings who live in higher dimensional space are mot too happy with him.

Justin Imperiale has begun to learn how to use more paranormal powers. He's using the information he gained when he defeated Gaiton. The latest thing is how to teleport himself from place to place.The South Continent Empire is near war with Tiwanaku, the country to the South of the present Empire.Tiwanaku is a country with a regular army, tanks, field artillery, heavily armed infantry and so forth. The situation seems likely to explode into war, but Justin has a plan.In the process of carrying out his plan, Justin encounters Annda, a woman he abandoned to a terrorist group. Annda and Justin have a mind war.After the mind war, Justin manages to obtain four neutron weapons that he can use to solve problems in Avuls. He then arms drone aircraft with the weapons and ships them to a seaport near Avuls.While the weapons are en-route, two space freighters and a warbird approach Corin. The ships contain refugees called Vorkal. The Vorkal have paranormal talents among them. Justin learns from the Vorkal paranormal; talents and also acquires a warbird.Justin needs to return to Mesodania, but decides to take the long way and he searches for and finds a talisman in the South continent.At a refueling stop, something is not right. So he flies to Ifrequeh, instead of directly back to Mesodania.In Ifrequeh, Justin discovers that a juju man called Dwarf is trying to take over his mine. To prevent a war, Justin is forced to fight a mind battle against the Dwarf.Justin then returns to Mesodania. He finds that war with Avuls threatens and Justin becomes the lone voice of reason amidst war hawks. The situation worsens and Justin secretly launches the drones that he's prepared and wipes out the leadership of Avuls. Voice of reason, Justin then leads an invasion of Avuls, 'just to provide needed leadership'.Several pretenders try to establish themselves as King of Avuls, but they run into Justin.Justin uses a combination of military power, religious endorsement and economic development to establish himself as King of Avuls.There are those who smuggle illegal drugs through Avuls. No one wants to actually stop the drug smuggling as the powers that be are profiting from the smuggling. That doesn't bother Justin, He just plans to steal the drugs.Justin then gets involved with a group in Mesodania who are selling silver objects. There is no commercial silver mining in Mesodania and Justin suspects that the silver is being mined via a gate, like the gate the the Glyon people use. He then explores the gate.There's a Temple of Vorell located near the city of Byzantion in the North Continent of the Old World. The Temple contains one of the scrolls Justin is seeking. The people in the area force the Priests out of the Temple and Justin plots to obtain the scroll.Justin still has his second chance and the adventure continues.

In this non-stop action packed 13th novel in the Second Chance series there are organizations that want to impede and/or halt the extraction of oil from the ground in Justin's Kingdoms.Justin's security people want to catch the troublemakers and throw them in jail.Justin can read minds, at least to some extent. However, to conceal this talent, he uses a method of gathering intelligence, called by security people, 'beating the crap out of the troublemakers.'Justin then gathers a Commando strike force and raids a terrorist base. During the raid, Justin finds that the terrorists have been dealing with a 'minor bureau' in the nation of Ruthenia. Jason sends 'a communique' to the very same 'minor bureau.'Near the North coast of Ifrequeh, there's a large valley, known as the Qattara Depression. The valley is both large and deep. It's really of very little use at the present, however, Justin has a plan.Justin has managed to contact an advanced civilization and has managed to obtain a number of very powerful atomic explosion devices. Justin plans to use the atomic devices to blast a channel from the sea to the valley and change the very climate of the region for the better.As the sea begins to fill the depression, the people of the country of Kemet begin to rejoice. Their country was, very long ago, the preeminent country on Corin. Now, a major engineering project has brought back some of the glory of the old days.However, the celebration turns to rioting, when the police try to stop things.Justin can then use his new found fame to become the King of Kemet, after he topples the old government.A spaceship has dropped a young woman off with the battlewagon that defends Corin. The young woman is dazzlingly beautiful. The young woman wants to see Justin. Justin realizes that the young woman has probably been sent to control or kill him, but then again ...Justin then becomes involved with pirates. In the process of dealing with the pirates, Justin learns that an advanced civilization is going to invade another world. Justin suspects that the reason for the invasion is an interplanetary gate that leads to his world, Corin.

Justin is in the process of conquering the nations in the South and East of Corin. The main problems are drug lords who control large rural areas. Justin figures out how to deal with the drug lords. The drug lords then start to force their drug flower farmers to take a poison pill that requires daily doses, or the farmer dies. Justin manages to solve that problem, with quite a bit of adventure. But, where did the poison pills come from? In addition to running his expanding number of Kingdoms, Justin still has to prepare to fight a rogue from dimension 4. The rogue is a denizen of dimension 4 and Justin must be prepared to fight the rogue in dimension 4. The problem is that operating in four dimensions is very difficult, as there are not even words in dimension 3 for things in dimension 4, However, Jason begins to develop a plan.

Dorset, to the immediate North of Averon, faces a problem, bankruptcy or become one of Justin Imperiale's Kingdoms. Justin is forced to fight a being from Zarel, a high gravity world. The challenge makes no sense, as the high gravity world mog can't get close enough to Justin to hurt him; unless the high gravity world mog uses paranormal skills. Justin then manages to set up a visit to an eastern nation called Shindhu. The visit is supposedly about trade and child labour. However, Justin seeks to steal a Lord Vorell scroll from Shindhu. He is then faced with two micro revolts in New World Kingdoms. The problem is off world interference almost certainly orchestrated by Arvion, demigod of the sky. The off worlders have set a trap that Justin avoids. Using ideas from the new Lord Vorell scroll, the mind of a would be assassin and a machine, intended to trap him, Justin builds a working interplanetary gate. He then has to fight a war in Mande. Justin fights a mind battle with a paranormal talent, almost certainly sent by Arvion. A maybe ghost, maybe God, visits Justin. The Nation of Dunvar is preparing to invade the Kingdoms of Bjornmark, Kjelmer and Nordveg. Justin manages to blackmail Dunvar politicians and delay the war. He then arranges for the assassination of the Leader of Dunvar and pushes the war further back. Finally Justin manages to elevate the President of Dunvar from figurehead to a position of power. University radicals invade Justin's Palace and are dealt with. He then prepares to set up a new Kingdom of Nordheim, in the North of the Old World.

Justin Imperiale is visited by a man from the giant eastern Empire of Khoten.The man has a problem and the Crown of Kho, the legendary crown of the Emperor of Khoten. Justin then prepares to visit Khoten and perhaps to rule Khoten. However, Justin still must beware of a fight with Arvion demi-god of the sky.Justin has any number of battles, military battles, unarmed combat battles and even sword battles. In addition to the battles, Justin visits the fourth dimensional universe, in a paranormal adventure.