After leaving a sci-fi convention in Dumbarton, Melody Lattimer takes a wrong turn and washes up in the remote coastal village of Slashness. Rapidly falling for its seductive charms, what she doesn't realise is that strange happenings are afoot in this wayward Scottish paradise, events that will enmesh oddball residents and eccentric visitors alike. What nefarious ends will a sinister Continental aristocrat go to in order to further his dark ambition?...