Publisher's Synopsis
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? Why has it recently spilled over into bloody conflict? How might this threaten Denzel's College and its remote Gaian Foundation in the Lancastrian capital of Clitheroe? And what part, if any, does the enigmatic girl found in the pool play in all this? Set in a future Lancashire, after climate change, we follow Denzel as he's dragged not only into a search for answers, but into a fight against a legacy from his world's cataclysmic past. And against all this upheaval, can Denzel finally fulfil a promise he made many years before to his lamented younger sister?
