Faerie Tale — Raymond E. Feist

Phil Hastings was a lucky man--he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he'd just moved into the house of his dreams in rural upstate New York. Life was wonderful, full of magic--and about to be altered irrevocably by a Magic more real than any he dared imagine.

For with the Magic came the Bad Thing, and the Faerie, and then the Fool ... and the resurrection of a primordial war with a forgotten People--a war that not only the Hastings but the whole human race could lose.