The spider Jumper must take human form to help save Xanth from a looming clash between two of its most powerful Demons, guided by a cryptic prophecy and thrown together with alluring women who may or may not be trustworthy. Human shape brings human complications he never had to manage with eight legs. The thirty-third Xanth novel turns one of the series' animal-talent characters into its reluctant hero.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources