When Denzel and his fellow trader Winston lead their pack-ponies home from the small Lancastrian port of Bolton, he's amazed when he finds the strangely wrapped body of a girl floating in a pool beside the track. This turns out, though, to be only the first of many mysteries involving Denzel and his Gaian College at Wallsuches. What's behind the longstanding animosity between the neighbouring hamlet of Horwich and the fishing port of Chorley?...