Lottie Montmerencie's life could never be dull. The young library assistant continues to find herself involved in one fantastic adventure after another, ably assisted by her friend Penny and her talking pets Allsorts and Scruffy. Guarded and guided everywhere she goes by a magical talking charm, she will go to any lengths to save her beloved land of Dofstram from the evil Zanus, the witch-creature Imelda and their hordes of Zanuthians and Gorgonians. In this second book in the trilogy, the terrors begin right back home on her doorstep, when a neighbour called Jeremy turns out to be less human...