The Hour of the Gate

Marooned in another universe, a young American musician leads a motley army in battle against an enemy that threatens to destroy their world and ours
 
Jon-Tom just wanted to go home. Trapped in a world where animals speak and magic is real, the American college student yearned for an ordinary dorm-room life. But here his music has magical power—even if he can’t control it—which may be able to save the world from the army of the Plated Folk, whose sinister queen plans on killing …