Emily heads to the annual family caravan holiday not knowing that she's embarking on a journey to a different reality altogether. With trusted friend Bran by her side she must overcome her fears and unravel the true meaning of the book she buys that predicts the future. Well, sort of predicts it. Her path crosses over with a murderous man on a quest to recover his own body parts, a woman who would be Queen, and a foppish dandy who knows a lot more than he's telling. As she tries to make sense of it all a specialist detective tries to unravel the odd and grisly murders that are infesting the city. They seem linked in various ways including the slow emergence of a girl's name beginning with an E. The book was passed to a girl.