Alec Thompson was the son of Paul Thompson who, like his brother George Thompson and their family before them had somehow had the 'Power'. His mother Jean Thompson and her family before had also had the 'Power and it was believed that Alec, being from the union of two such 'Powers' would probably have even more than his parents had.
Alec did develop to have far more powers than anyone that they knew had ever had and eventually after his girlfriend Susan Jackson had completed her university studies and had achieved her PhD. But Alec (whose family had one of the most successful businesses in the town) remained at home to learn the business. His business though was developed using the many aspects of the Power. When Susan and Alec married they saw their business grow and grow. Much was demanded of Alec by the Power and he eventually met up with his old school friend Jack Bryant. Jack and his girlfriend Jennifer had had quite a rough start and had had little in the way of work and their life had been more or less on a downhill slope until Alec heard of them getting married. This was later, of course, and as Alec's business had continued to grow it brought Alec and Jack back together with Alec and Susan arranging Jack and Jennifer's wedding. Alec also offered Jack work within his business.
Alec's dad and his uncle George were now able to take a back seat with their business as it grew even though they were the major shareholders. Alec's dad managed this quite well but his uncle George found that he had no outside interest and had no easy way to adjust to this new lifestyle.
This story continues onwards, following on from previous novels about young Alec and his family, and of his adventures in dealing with the fact that he and several of his family have in some way been endowed with the ability to wield the Power.
In this book, Alec has been nominated by the Power to be the trainer for the many other peoples that are so endowed to do some things. Now, as the nominated trainer for the Power he has to begin the training of his own Uncle George, who until then had, along with his brother (Alec's father) been running a very successful business in the town. They had inherited this business down their family from the many benefits that had been obtained by using the Power. The way that they had done all of this was not how they should have done it and it had been down, largely to Alec, to save the family from ruin by correcting the many things that had been done wrong in the past.
This book then deals with the start of Alec being the trainer for others who do use the Power.