Alice, Tom and the Spook return home to find the county has been ransacked by soldiers. The Spook just lost everything, his life's work in the library of every spook who ever lived knowledge reduced to rubble. But there isn't time to grieve, they must find shelter in the island of Mona. Where a Spook's trade is not an honored tradition and an old foe hides underground waiting? Can it be defeated? Will they find a home in this hostile environment? Can they ever go back to the county?
