Oliver Archer is a wealthy, handsome young man enjoying the high life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan before going off to college — until a stray molecular black hole shrinks him down to two inches tall. He is ripped from his glittering life and forced into the underworld of New York City . . . not the criminal underworld, but a hidden society that lives beneath the sidewalks, in the sewers, and in the spaces behind old walls. There Oliver is drawn into a deadly conflict as he encounters mice with human genes, robotic vermin, and strange elfin creatures that use 21st century technology. Now the fate of humanity depends upon one pampered young man who must somehow find the courage and strength to face his new reality. In many ways The Hidden Empire is a modern Odyssey – not a tale about a young man returning from a war – but a young man’s journey from naïveté to becoming the warrior that he needs to be to survive.